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Also, how does Spanner get around the CAP theorem and similar distributed systems results? It seems like the only tradeoff is monetary at the moment.
by dnackoul 9y ago
Also, how does Spanner get around the CAP theorem and similar distributed systems results? It seems like the only tradeoff is monetary at the moment.
- brown9-2 9y agohttps://research.google.com/pubs/pub45855.html https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45855.html
- dnackoul 9y agoThanks!
- manigandham 9y agoThe only important line, which means it's a CP system: > Even then outages will occur, in which case Spanner chooses consistency over availability.
- manigandham 9y agoIt doesnt - they're saying they have such good networking that P is very rare so it's one of the few times you treat it like it's CA. In case P does happen (a network break), it's a CP system.