You do not disagree with the author. Quoting from his post: Given that distributed transactions necessitate distributed coordination, it would seem that there

You do not disagree with the author. Quoting from his post: Given that distributed transactions necessitate distributed coordination, it would seem that there is a fundamental tradeoff between scalable performance and support for distributed transactions. Indeed, many practitioners assume that this is the case. When they set out to build a scalable system, they immediately assume that they will not be able to support distributed atomic transactions without severe performance degradation. This is in fact completely false. It is very much possible for a scalable system to support performant distributed atomic transactions. In a recent paper [http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dna/papers/fit.pdf http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dna/papers/fit.pdf], we published a new representation of the tradeoffs involved in supporting atomic transactions in scalable systems.