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Articles about ACID
A History of Extended Transactions
by
Mark Little
Posted on
May 10, 2006
ACID transactions don't work for long-lived use cases. This article documents historic approaches taken in the CORBA and J2EE communities toward extended transactions, how SOA is a more natural fit, and why WS-TX & WS-CAF may finally hold the answer.
Interviews about ACID

Rich Hickey on Datomic, CAP and ACID
by
Rich Hickey
Posted on
Jan 21, 2013
Rich Hickey explains the basics of Datomic, its approach to transactions and query, Datalog, CAP, ACID and BASE, and much more.

Randy Shoup Discusses the eBay Architecture
by
Randy Shoup
Posted on
Jun 05, 2008
In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2007, Randy Shoup discusses the architecture of eBay. Topics discussed include eBay's architectural principles, horizontal and vertical partitioning, ACID vs. BASE, handling data inconsistency, distributed caching, updating eBay on the fly, architectural and coding standards, eBay's search infrastructure, grid computing, and SOA.
Presentations about ACID
Transactions: Over Used or Just Misunderstood? by Mark Little Posted on Feb 21, 2013 00:27:58
Fear No More: Embrace Eventual Consistency by Sean Cribbs Posted on Feb 12, 2013 00:46:32
SQLFire: Scalable SQL instead of NoSQL by Jags Ramnaraya Posted on Oct 12, 2011 00:53:29
Embracing Concurrency At Scale by Justin Sheehy Posted on Jun 23, 2010 00:53:11
Hooking Stuff Together - Programming the Cloud by Gregor Hohpe Posted on Jul 08, 2009 01:00:03
News about ACID
FoundationDB NoSQL Database Supports ACID Transactions by Srini Penchikala Posted on Apr 29, 2013
RavenDB Founder On .NET, ACID with NoSQL, Upcoming Features by Roopesh Shenoy Posted on Jan 22, 2013
Interview With Nick Lavezzo, Co-Founder of FoundationDB by Roopesh Shenoy Posted on Dec 04, 2012
Neo4j: Java-based NoSQL Graph Database by Michael Hunger Posted on Feb 25, 2010
SOA Transactions Using the Reservations Pattern by Boris Lublinsky Posted on Sep 16, 2009
Interview: Randy Shoup Discusses the eBay Architecture by Ryan Slobojan Posted on Jun 10, 2008
GemStone Reveals Plans for MagLev Ruby VM at RailsConf 2008 by Nick Laiacona Posted on May 31, 2008
Software Transactions: A Programming Language Perspective by Jean-Jacques Dubray Posted on Mar 20, 2008
Should developers write their own transaction coordination logic? by Jean-Jacques Dubray Posted on Jan 15, 2008
Sun demonstrates WS-AT interoperability with Microsoft by Mark Little Posted on Apr 26, 2007
OASIS WS-Transaction (almost) a standard by Mark Little Posted on Jan 24, 2007
Article: A History of Extended Transactions by Diana Plesa Posted on May 09, 2006




