Hi all,

Last Thursday when we got together, it turned out that approx. half of the group would be able to commit to once every three weeks, and the other half to once every four weeks. Based on that, I will try to work out a schedule.

Now, one of the other things we ideally would have done is to work out an order of reading the papers; we haven't done that yet. Find the list of all papers down below. (Or check the list of all papers on the nosqlsummer site.)

In order to get things a little bit more organized, I will filter out the most complicated papers first (basically looking for math density) and then send out a poll on the remaining twelve papers. (Meetup.com doesn't allow me to have a poll from more then twelve items. Don't get me started.) Think of it as map reduce. No pun intended.

The 1995 SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics

Access Path Selection in an RDBMS

Amazon’s Dynamo

BASE: an Acid Alternative

The Byzantine Generals Problem

The CAP Theorem

Cassandra — A Decentralized Structured Storage System

Codd’s Relational Model

On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services

The End of an Architectural Era

Eventually Consistent

Google’s BigTable

Google’s Chubby

Google’s MapReduce

The Graph Traversal Pattern

Harvest, Yield, and Scalable Tolerant Systems

CRDTs: Consistency without concurrency control

Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate’s Opinion

The Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM-Tree)

Paxos Made Simple

The Process Group Approach to Reliable Distributed Computing

Stasis: Flexible Transactional Storage

Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System

Timestamps in Message-Passing Systems That Preserve the Partial Ordering

The Transaction Concept: Virtues and Limitations

A History of the Virtual Synchrony Replication Model

Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems

PNUTS: Yahoo!’s Hosted Data Serving Platform

Benchmarking Cloud Serving Systems with YCSB