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Check out this post mentioned in the original post: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/inside-Cloud-Spanner-and-the-CAP-Theorem.html https://cloudpla
by jrowley 10y ago
Check out this post mentioned in the original post:
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/inside-Cloud-Spanner-and-the-CAP-Theorem.html https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/inside-Cloud-Sp...
Of note:
They say Spanner is "both consistent and highly available despite operating over a wide area". So not 100% availability but they've got it to "more than five 9s of availability (less than one failure in 1066)."
- mikeyouse 10y agoI didn't pick up on it until just a moment ago, but when you say "They say", it's actually Eric Brewer saying that -- who's most known for coming up with the CAP theorem. I think they've got a pretty good understanding of it!
- jrowley 10y agoha whoops good catch! I knew the post was written by Brewer, but slipped up with the they... yeah I think we have it on pretty good authority that they system doesn't so how violate CAP yet addresses it's challenges.