The key insight: &quot;... existing transactional storage systems waste work and performance by incorporating a distributed transaction protocol and a replication protocol that both enforce strong consistency. Instead, we show that it is possible to provide distributed transactions with better performance and the same transaction and consistency model using replication with no consistency.&quot;<p>The full paper is here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;delivery.acm.org&#x2F;10.1145&#x2F;2820000&#x2F;2815404&#x2F;p263-zhang.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;delivery.acm.org&#x2F;10.1145&#x2F;2820000&#x2F;2815404&#x2F;p263-zhang.p...</a>