In contrast, weaker models such as eventual consistency accept temporal discrepancies between replicas, thereby enhancing read/write performance and system availability.

Alluxio addresses the same set of issues for file system data. In 2012, researchers at the UC Berkeley APM Lab open-sourced a memory-centric, fault-tolerant virtual distributed storage system ...

Operational big data powers live applications where milliseconds matter and consistency can’t be compromised. AI agents drive this shift by operating at machine speed rather than human pace.