Diamond

Users of today’s popular wide-area apps (e.g., Twitter, Google Docs, and Words with Friends) no longer need to save and reload when updating shared data; instead, these applications are reactive, providing the illusion of continuous synchronization across mobile devices and the cloud. Achieving this illusion poses a complex distributed data management problem for programmers. This project presents the first reactive data management service, called Diamond, which provides persistent cloud storage, reliable synchronization between storage and mobile devices, and automated execution of application code in response to shared data updates. We were able to demonstrate that Diamond greatly simplifies the design of reactive applications, strengthens distributed data sharing guarantees, and supports automated reactivity with low performance overhead.

Publications

• Diamond: Automating Data Management and Storage in Wide-area, Reactive Applications. Irene Zhang and Niel Lebeck and Pedro Fonseca and Brandon Holt and Raymond Cheng and Ariadna Norberg and Arvind Krishnamurthy and Henry M. Levy. In OSDI 2016.