Fauna: Lessons Learned Building a Real World, Calvin-based System

Speaker:

Matt Freels

System:

Fauna

Video:

YouTube

Fauna is a NoSQL Database-as-an-API service which supports consistent, global database access for OLTP workloads. While there are many aspects of Fauna which make it unique among similar systems, one in particular is its use of Calvin, a deterministic transaction resolution protocol which underpins its strict-serializability guarantees. This talk will give an overview of Fauna's architecture, why we chose Calvin... Read More