Ok, I found these slides and I believe we are on the same page, so to speak: http://hyperdex.org/slides/2012-04-13-HyperDex.pdf http://hyperdex.org/slides/2012

Ok, I found these slides and I believe we are on the same page, so to speak: http://hyperdex.org/slides/2012-04-13-HyperDex.pdf http://hyperdex.org/slides/2012-04-13-HyperDex.pdf Quote: What CAP really says: - if you cannot constrain your faults in any way, - and your requests can be directed at any server, - and you insist on serving every request, - then you cannot possibly be consistent. No shortage of systems that preemptively give up on C, A, and P, especially C End quote. I think that's exactly correct. Which leaves me with a nearly impossible problem. But it sure is fun to work on!