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You can think of this a bit differently, that the network is asynchronous and is effectively always partitioned. This helps to highlight the trade offs between
by zzzcpan 9y ago
You can think of this a bit differently, that the network is asynchronous and is effectively always partitioned. This helps to highlight the trade offs between CP and AP, since it becomes obvious that you need to wait to get consistency and if you don't wait you can get it only eventually. Also becomes obvious that CA systems cannot actually exist, and 5 9s availability has absolutely nothing to do with any of that.
- muxator 9y agoFair point. This is a very clever way of looking at it, thanks.
- theptip 9y agoThis is a much more sophisticated way of carving up the problem -- for those interested in reading more, Kleppmann has discussed this extensively: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/05/11/please-stop-calling-databases-cp-or-ap.html https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/05/11/please-stop-calling-...