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Properties are only sacrificed during partitions. Due to Murphy's Law, if you assume partitions never happen they will happen more often but if you can tolerate
by wmf 2y ago
Properties are only sacrificed during partitions. Due to Murphy's Law, if you assume partitions never happen they will happen more often but if you can tolerate partitions they happen really rarely.
- anderskaseorg 2y agoThere are plenty of systems that sacrifice consistency even while the network is fully connected, in the name of performance—for example, DNS, or any system with a caching proxy server.
- wmf 2y agoYeah, CAP is about the best possible behavior a system can have but you can always do worse.
- shepherdjerred 2y agoThat is not true with PACELC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACELC_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACELC_theorem
- shepherdjerred 2y agoTo clarify I’m not saying PACELC invalidates PAC, just that it expands to consider the case where there isn’t a partition.