Features Configuration

Antidote can be configured to use different transaction protocols and recovery strategies.

Options for environmental variables

Parameter

Value

Description

txn_cert

true

Write operations are certified during commit. The transaction is aborted if a write conflict is detected (i.e. snapshot isolation is ensured for the updates within a single DC, updates across DCs are not checked) (default).

false

Transactions perform no certification check and always commit (if they do not crash).

txn_prot

clocksi

Uses the Cure protocol to define snapshots and causal dependencies (default).

gr

Uses the Gentle-rain protocol to define snapshots and causal dependencies.

recover_from_log

true

When starting a node, it loads any operations stored on the disk log to the in memory cache of the key-value store (default).

false

When starting a node, the key-value store is empty.

recover_meta_data_on_start

true

Meta-data state is loaded from disk on restart including connection state between other DCs and node names and configurations. Nodes automatically reconnect to other DCs on restart (default).

false

meta-data concerning node names and connections to other DCs is not loaded on restart.

sync_log

true

Local transactions are stored in the log synchronously, i.e., when the reply is sent, the updates are guaranteed to have been stored to disk (this is very slow in the current logging setup).

false

All updates are sent to the operating system to be stored on disk (eventually), but are not guaranteed to be stored durably on disk when the reply is sent (default)

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