David Q. Sun

Real Differences between OT and CRDT in Correctness and Complexity for Consistency Maintenance in Co-Editors

OT (Operational Transformation) was invented for supporting real-time co-editors in the late 1980s and has evolved to become core techniques widely used in today’s working co-editors and adopted in industrial products. CRDT (Commutative Replicated Data Type) for co-editors was first proposed around 2006, under the nam…