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Re:Errors in Database Systems, Eventual Consistency, and the... by wmf on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @02:28PM (#1248015)
If you keep adding servers indefinitely, it becomes slower and slower to commit every transaction to every server.

The point of database partitioning is that a transaction that doesn't span partitions only touches a constant number of servers (usually 2 or 3).

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Re:Errors in Database Systems, Eventual Consistency, and the... by kennu on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @05:58PM (#1248552)
I would interpret that as a compromise where C, A and P are divided into some ratio (you still don't get 100% of each). I understand Cassandra does that well if the application fits the model.
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