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"High availability" is not the same thing as the "A" in the CAP theorem. Spanner chooses consistency over availability, but it is a HA system in the sense that
by teraflop 10y ago
"High availability" is not the same thing as the "A" in the CAP theorem. Spanner chooses consistency over availability, but it is a HA system in the sense that it can tolerate datacenter outages.