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Eventual consistency and ACID are not at odds, you can have one or the other or neither or both.
by Taek 6y ago
Eventual consistency and ACID are not at odds, you can have one or the other or neither or both.
- swyx 6y agodepends how you interpret ACID. for some interpretaions, only strong consistency qualifies
- dboreham 6y agoNot true. Eventual consistency can not (provably) provide consensus.
- IggleSniggle 6y agosure it can! A particle can be either this or that until someone looks at it, and when they do, the act of looking at it causes the state to collapse and propagate. Sure, a partitioned group may come to alternate realities before they reunite, but then you just get to do the same thing again! Like Conways Game of Life, except with application state. (I am joking of course)