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Re:The Limits of the CAP Theorem by hodgesrm on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @03:35PM (#14648597)
There's a quote from _Transaction Processing_ by Gray and Reuter about ACID transactions that is quite relevant to eventual consistency:

"Without transactions, distributed systems cannot be made to work for typical real-life applications."

This is as true now as it was 25 years ago, for exactly the reasons cited by Google. The book is incidentally still a good read.

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Re:The Limits of the CAP Theorem by zeckalpha on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @08:37PM (#14650840)
Transactions are related to atomicity, not consistency. There are atomic AP systems with transactions but without consistency.
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