Publication of 'Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store'
Amazon engineers, including Giuseppe DeCandia and Werner Vogels, presented their seminal paper detailing the architecture of Dynamo, Amazon's internal distributed key-value store.
Significance
This paper was a landmark in distributed systems research. It openly shared Amazon's solution to building highly available, scalable systems, influencing the design of countless NoSQL databases and inspiring a generation of engineers to embrace eventual consistency and decentralized architectures.
Key facts
- Date
- 2007-10-21
- Type
- invention
- Location
- Orcas Island, Washington (ACM SOSP 2007)