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
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Overall Rank: 13,371 | 7.08%
DOI: -

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1. Pat Helland

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