4 ms·

Then you have downtime. If the downtime is small enough, then the trade-off can be worthwhile.

• owenmarshall 5y ago
  You sacrificed A.
  • throwaway3699 5y ago
    So does Spanner. The point is that Spanner has so little downtime that it's not really an issue.
    • lostcolony 5y ago
      Spanner is a strongly consistent system leveraging Paxos. Yes, with sufficient redundancy you can reduce the likelihood of a partition. You still want to know what the guarantees of the system are. Spanner guarantees that if a transaction can't be agreed to by a quorum of nodes, it will be rejected. Ergo, favoring consistency. That guarantee matters, no matter how infrequent partitions are.
• lostcolony 5y ago
  So...not available.