Re:You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance (2010)
by zzzcpan on Sunday May 15, 2016 @04:47PM
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> and given a partition you will chose one or the other
There is no sacrificing consistency though. It's about whether you use CRDTs or something to keep the system working when network partition happens or you don't and let the system stop working.
Re:You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance (2010)
by superuser2 on Sunday May 15, 2016 @10:28PM
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You can (and a shocking number of distributed database systems in widespread usage do) fail to guarantee either one.
"When it comes to designing or evaluating distributed systems, then, I think we should focus less on which two of the three Virtues we like most and more on what compromises a system makes as things go bad."
It seemed like the entire point was that really there are only 2 Virtues (Consistency, Availability) and given a partition you will chose one or the other. The only database that doesn't have network partitions also isn't distributed.