I happen to agree, funnily enough. I only talked about the extreme ends of the spectrum. I suspect that C/A systems have a natural place, say, up to datacenter-

I happen to agree, funnily enough. I only talked about the extreme ends of the spectrum. I suspect that C/A systems have a natural place, say, up to datacenter-sized systems. After that they founder on latency and partitions. The big thing about Dynamo in particular isn't eventual consistency but configurable consistency. You can specify how much consistency you want and how long you will wait for it.