As Brian's partner in crime as co-founder and an old time DB hand, I do believe modern distributed databases have to not just support scale and performance but

As Brian's partner in crime as co-founder and an old time DB hand, I do believe modern distributed databases have to not just support scale and performance but also attempt to provide the best ACID consistency possible in the presence of failures. Hopefully, database systems programmers will be interested in learning the details of how Aerospike works, benefit from this, and even help improve it.