UniStore - A Fault-Tolerant Marriage of Causal and Strong Consistency

The course teaches how to design a fault-tolerant and scalable data store that combines causal and strong consistency to address the challenges of maintaining liveness in geographically distributed data centers. The learning outcomes include understanding the trade-offs between consistency levels, implementing causal and strong transactions, and evaluating the effectiveness of the UniStore system. The course is intended for software engineers, system architects, and researchers interested in distributed systems and data store technologies. The teaching method involves presenting theoretical concepts, discussing the design of UniStore, and evaluating its performance through benchmarks and real-world scenarios.