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Very interesting that there's no mention of the CAP theorem here, despite Amazon's heavy reliance on it in the past when marketing their non-relational stuff.
by justinsb 15y ago
Very interesting that there's no mention of the CAP theorem here, despite Amazon's heavy reliance on it in the past when marketing their non-relational stuff.
- chubot 15y agoI'm very curious about this too. I posted in another thread: "Doesn't that just sweep the latency tradeoff under the rug, or is flash making up the difference? What about the availability tradeoff? (I like the formulation here, consistency vs availability and consistency vs latency, as opposed to CAP which never made sense as a 3-way tradeoff: http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/04/problems-with-cap-an... http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/04/problems-with-cap-an...) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3480805 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3480805
- leef 15y agoThe CAP theorem is boiled down to you choosing whether or not you want consistent reads.