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So does Spanner. The point is that Spanner has so little downtime that it's not really an issue.
by throwaway3699 5y ago
So does Spanner. The point is that Spanner has so little downtime that it's not really an issue.
- lostcolony 5y agoSpanner 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.