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\conferenceinfo{SIGMOD'13,} {June 22--27, 2013, New York, New York, USA.}
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\title{PBS at Work: Advancing Data Management\\with Consistency Metrics}

\author{Peter Bailis, Shivaram Venkataraman, Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ion Stoica\\[1mm]
{\large\textit{UC Berkeley}}}

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\category{H.2.4}{Database Management}{Systems}[Distributed databases]
\keywords{eventual consistency, monitoring, prediction; auto-tuning

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\noindent\textbf{Acknowledgments} We would like to thank Jonathan
Ellis for his help in reviewing our Cassandra patch and Aaron
Davidson, Aviad Rubenstein, and Anirudh Todi for early experimentation
with dynamic quorum policies. This research is supported in part by
National Science Foundation grants CCF-1139158, CNS-0722077,
IIS-0713661, IIS-0803690, and IIS-0917349, DARPA awards
FA8650-11-C-7136 and FA8750-12-2-0331, Air Force OSR Grant
FA9550-08-1-0352, the NSF GRFP under Grant DGE-1106400. and gifts from
Amazon Web Services, Google, SAP, Blue Goji, Cisco, Clearstory Data,
Cloudera, EMC, Ericsson, Facebook, General Electric, Hortonworks,
Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, NTT Multimedia Communications
Laboratories, Oracle, Quanta, Samsung, Splunk, VMware and Yahoo!.

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