[RhodesianHunter]

I can assure you that the major theories behind modern big distributed databases were not written in decades old books.

[kerng]

Yeah, distributed database systems from the late 70s, early 80s actually had certain transactional guarantees that some of these "modern big distributed systems" you refer to still dont have.

[sedachv]

Yes, some of those theories were also applied in decades old systems. Look up Tandem Computers and Teradata.