Version Vectors
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In my last article, we talked about Vector Clocks. We learned that Vector Clocks could help establish the ordering of operations, including identifying whether operations happened concurrently or were causally related. A very similar mechanism is used by Version Vector, but it’s used for a slightly different purpose.
Version Vector
Version Vectors are generally leveraged in distributed data-driven applications, where each data record is tied to a Version Vector. Since it’s a distributed system, a data record can be updated concurrently by multiple nodes. Thus, we can…