We propose MindPalace, a prototype of a versioned database for efficient collaborative data management. MindPalace supports offline collaboration, where users work independently without real-time correspondence. The core of MindPalace is a critical step of offline collaboration: reconciling divergent branches made by simultaneous data manipulation. We formalize the concept of auto-mergeability, a condition under which branches may be reconciled without human intervention, and propose an efficient framework for determining whether two branches are auto-mergeable and identifying particular records for manual reconciliation.
@article{arxiv.2110.01778,
title = {Version Reconciliation for Collaborative Databases},
author = {Nalin Ranjan and Zechao Shang and Aaron J. Elmore and Sanjay Krishnan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.01778},
year = {2021}
}