Riak PG: distributed process groups on dynamo-style distributed storage

Authors:
Christopher Meiklejohn
Affiliations:
Basho Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, RI, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the twelfth ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Erlang
Year:
2013

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Abstract

We present Riak PG, a new Erlang process group registry for highly available applications. The Riak PG system is a Dynamo-based, distributed, fault-tolerant, named process group registry for use as an alternative to the built-in Erlang process group facility, pg2, and the globally distributed extended process registry, gproc. Riak PG aims to provide a highly-available, fault-tolerant, distributed registry by sacrificing strong consistency for eventual consistency in applications where availability of the registry is paramount to application function and performance.