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Re:Executing Parallel Statements to Improve Performance by carterehsmith on Thursday October 26, 2017 @12:19AM (#15556311)
"We take our consistency guarantees, and correctness more generally, deadly serious"

That is empty talk, ie advertising.

In a distributed database, as is the state of the art, you sacrifice one of: availability, consistency, performance.

This is true for every db, be it Spanner, or MongoDb.

Best to document what exactly was sacrificed. Just claiming that you "take it seriously" means nothing. BTW good luck :)

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Re:Executing Parallel Statements to Improve Performance by manigandham on Saturday November 04, 2017 @08:42PM (#15627596)
Is that your own spin on the CAP theorem? Where does "performance" even come into the equation?

And CRDB is a CP system, just like Spanner.

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