Part 10 · Distributed Transactions and Consensus

Lamport Clocks and Hybrid Logical Clocks

Lamport clockHappens-beforeHLCClock skew

Server clocks disagree, so 'which write came first' is hard. Lamport clocks, the happens-before relation, and hybrid logical clocks used by CockroachDB.

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