News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance (2010). Parent comment

Re:You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance (2010) by sciurus on Sunday May 15, 2016 @07:50PM (#11703345)
A "clustered CA" system that corrupts data sounds like a AP system.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance (2010) by wmf on Sunday May 15, 2016 @08:15PM (#11703444)
During a partition an AP system just returns stale data but a CA system may completely crash or lose all data.
[ Parent | on HN ]