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memgraph/experimental/distributed/README.md
Goran Zuzic 3ae35fa161 Renamings 
Summary:
1. SenderMessage -> ReturnAddressMsg and GetChannelToSender -> GetReturnChannelWriter
2. Channel -> ChannelWriter
3. Connector -> Channel
4. removed old serialize_test
5. removed AwaitEvent and PopEvent

Reviewers: sasa.stanko

Reviewed By: sasa.stanko

Subscribers: pullbot

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.memgraph.io/D698
2017-08-23 15:18:07 +02:00

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distributed memgraph

This subdirectory structure implements distributed infrastructure of Memgraph.

terminology

  • Memgraph Node Id (mnid): a machine (processs) that runs a (distributed) Memgraph program.
  • Node: a computer that performs (distributed) work.
  • Vertex: an abstract graph concept.
  • Reactor: a unit of concurrent execution, lives on its own thread.
  • Channel: a (one-way) communication abstraction between Reactors. The reactors can be on the same machine or on different processes.
  • EventStream: read-end of a channel, is owned by exactly one Reactor/thread.
  • ChannelWriter: write-end of a channel, can be owned (wrote into) by multiple threads.

conventions

  1. Locked: A method having a Locked... prefix indicates that you have to lock the appropriate mutex before calling this function.

dependencies

  • cereal