CRDT / A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype

[Andreas Kotes <co...@flatline.de>]

Hi,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12303100

just rushed by, and it seemed utterly relevant to this audience to me.

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Abstract from https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.03960.pdf:

Many applications model their data in a general-purpose storage format
such as JSON. This data structure is modified by the application as a
result of user input. Such modifications are well understood if
performed sequentially on a single copy of the data, but if the data is
replicated and modified concurrently on multiple devices, it is unclear
what the semantics should be. In this paper we present an algorithm and
formal semantics for a JSON data structure that automatically resolves
concurrent modifications such that no updates are lost, and such that
all replicas converge towards the same state. It supports arbitrarily
nested list and map types, which can be modified by insertion, deletion
and assignment. The algorithm performs all merging client-side and does
not depend on ordering guarantees from the network, making it suitable
for deployment on mobile devices with poor network connectivity, in
peer-to-peer networks, and in messaging systems with end-to-end
encryption.

Index Terms: CRDTs, Collaborative Editing, P2P, JSON, Optimistic
Replication, Operational Semantics, Eventual Consistency

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Andreas 'count' Kotes
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