I think this "global consensus with batching does everything partitioned does" is a very much theory vs practice type of statement. As in, in theory there is n

I think this "global consensus with batching does everything partitioned does" is a very much theory vs practice type of statement. As in, in theory there is no difference between theory and practice :-) I've seen those batched consensus systems, and honestly, you're kidding yourself if you think they can handle a million qps. Just transmit time of the data on ethernet would become an issue alone! Even with 40 gig - transmit time never becomes free. So now you're stuffing 1/10th of a million qps worth of data via a single set of machines (3, 5, 7, 9? Some relatively small amount) Am I misunderstanding you? Hopefully I am!