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I'd be surprised to see how they can be truly ACID and truly scale out. This is an unsolved problem to me, I submit there are fine prints regarding ACID or sca

• wmf 14y ago
  Jim Gray solved it in the 80s, but then we forgot about it.
  • shin_lao 14y ago
    To which of Jim's contribution are you referring to? I wasn't aware he designed a scale-out ACID transaction principle.
    • wmf 14y ago
      I was thinking of http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gray/papers/TEs.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gray/papers/TE... although in retrospect I'm not sure if they implemented cross-node transactions.
      • shin_lao 14y ago
        To my knowledge, ACID transactions and scale-out architectures are mutually exclusive, unless I missed a major breakthrough.
        • wmf 14y ago
          Two-phase commit?