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Well, it's pretty hard to even find applications that require strong global consistency and are willing to sacrifice latency for that. Typically apps don't need
by zzzcpan 8y ago
Well, it's pretty hard to even find applications that require strong global consistency and are willing to sacrifice latency for that. Typically apps don't need much consistency at all and can sacrifice some data instead, like with most RDBMS setups in the wild. Beyond that SEC (strong eventual consistency) covers pretty much all consistency needs there are.
- erikb 8y ago> it's pretty hard to even find applications that require strong global consistency Exactly my point, even a little generalized. The world isn't consistent, why always put unrealistic constraints unto ourselves. If we change from "I really need to have all the datasets in all of their truthest form" and instead go with "well there is some data coming, better than nothing" the whole system might be even more reliable. Things in the middle won't die just because the world is imperfect.