Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-Value Store” If you read only the abstract, you’d be forgiven for not being overly excited about the Dynamo paper. This paper presents the design and implementation of Dynamo, a highly available key-value storage system that some of Amazon’s core services use to provide an always-on experience. To achieve this level of availability, Dynamo sacrifices consistency under certain failure scenarios. It makes extensive use of object versioning and application-assisted conflict resolution in a manner that provides a novel interface for developers to use.
