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Re:Show HN: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Backblaze... by kevan on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:11PM (#12922154)
>I can't help wonder if eventually consistent object stores will go the way of NoSQL databases, when a consistent, scalable hierarchical filesystem appears.

Of course they will. Eventual consistency is a huge tradeoff that I don't think anyone would make if they weren't forced to.

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Re:Show HN: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Backblaze... by yandie on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:22PM (#12922272)
Then you trade availability with consistency. No system can't escape CAP
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Re:Show HN: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Backblaze... by kevan on Thursday November 10, 2016 @01:18PM (#12922761)
Exactly. Availability and partition tolerance are often hard requirements, so we have to do all sorts of gymnastics to deal with eventual consistency. In personal projects where availability isn't a big concern and my most precious resource is my own time I tend to make different tradeoffs.
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Re:Show HN: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Backblaze... by jamesblonde on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:13PM (#12922176)
Maybe something like this - 1 million ops/sec on HDFS: http://www.logicalclocks.com/index.php/2016/10/14/hops-smash...
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