Heisenberg Was on the Write Track

Summary: Impossibility result: in a distributed system spanning multiple servers, a client cannot simultaneously know where its write replicas will be placed and when those replicas are durably written. Consequence: a fundamental tradeoff shaping replication protocols, metadata design, and consistency/latency guarantees. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 229
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2015
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,610 | 6.95%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Pat Helland (Salesforce)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{helland_cidr15,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '15},
        title = {{Heisenberg Was on the Write Track}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Helland, Pat},
        year = {2015}
}

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7,827	Immutability Changes Everything	2015	CIDR	5.5210236e-05

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