Transactional Semantics for Compound Operations in Distributed Storage

Authors

  • Michael Johnson Author

Keywords:

distributed storage, transactions, atomicity, file systems, recovery

Abstract

This systems review examines transactional semantics for compound operations in distributed storage. The organizing question is how clients should reason about atomicity when one request spans files, objects, or storage nodes. Ten related scholarly sources are synthesized through a decision-centered framework spanning problem definition, mechanism, measurement, evaluation, implementation, and governance. The review does not invent experiments, pooled estimates, or unreported quantitative results. It instead evaluates the strength and transferability of the available evidence, with particular attention to mistaking fewer network round trips for transactional atomicity. The resulting framework links technical or empirical performance to explicit use conditions and identifies tests that should precede wider adoption in storage APIs serving data-intensive and scientific applications.

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Published

2026-08-05

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Vol. 1 (2026): Archive

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Systems Review

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