Except that he leaves out vector clocks and read repair which are mechanisms critical to fixing consistency issues in a dynamo style system. Also his treatment

Except that he leaves out vector clocks and read repair which are mechanisms critical to fixing consistency issues in a dynamo style system. Also his treatment of partition tolerance assumes that operations set up the Dynamo cluster machines incorrectly; all in the same rack. He also completely glosses over merkle trees, assuming that the sync they help perform must be a heavy operation.