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I'm very skeptical that many people will want this. Data misrepresentation is rarely (never?) due to a fault in the persistence medium. Its usually a political

• woah 8y ago
  What? Consensus algorithms in this class are used everywhere in web programming, from MySQL to AWS. Ironic that your comment may very well have touched several consensus algorithms on its way to my eyes. The fact that you remain blissfully unaware of them is a testament to their power.
• atombender 8y ago
  This has nothing to do with "data misrepresentation". It's about distributed consensus. It's not even really about storage, but about multiple parties agreeing on a single truth.
  • eru 8y ago
    Even just something as simple as which of several replicas is supposed to be the master. Not some great external truth about the world.