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Re:“Follow-The-Workload” Beats the Latency-Survivability Tra... by a012 on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @08:54PM (#15857888)
Does rethinkdb have ACID? No?
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Re:“Follow-The-Workload” Beats the Latency-Survivability Tra... by elvinyung on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @09:00PM (#15857911)
Whether that actually matters is arguable: No one has performant distributed (i.e. cross-partition) ACID. (Except maybe Google.)

For the thing that does matter, which is ACID within the same partition/entity group, I would argue that RethinkDB already does have that.

Mike Stonebraker says that there are no fast distributed transactions [1]. I'm inclined to believe him, and that's not just an appeal to authority.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRcecxdGxvQ&t=54m22s

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