jynnan

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   by jynnan 14y ago

   Your performance tests seem to have been run on a cluster that lives on one gigabit LAN. Have you tested a cluster that's distributed geographically?
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   by jynnan 14y ago

   It's not that hard to retry a transaction until some deadline is reached. Many programming languages have standard library facilities to make this extremely easy. If the database is fast enough and transaction failure is at least moderately
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   by jynnan 14y ago

   "Trading off against partinonability" is kind of a strange concept -- not only can you not prevent network partitions, you usually can't tell when they've happened until it's too late. The real upshot of the CAP theorem is that you have to