Amazon DynamoDB Distributed Transactions at Scale

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Video with transcript included on InfoQ: bit.ly/4bngYRU
Akshat Vig explains how transactions were added to Amazon DynamoDB using a timestamp-based ordering protocol to achieve low latency for both transactional and non-transactional operations.
#DynamoDB #NoSQL #Database
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[@swanv951]

Looks like the video ends abruptly

[@qixia10]

27:43

[@progamer1196]

I don’t understand how this approach is better than using locks, aren’t these basically the same things? When participating nodes reply with “yes” and when the change is committed, the nodes will be blocked for writing