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Re:You Can't Sacrifice Partition Tolerance by ithkuil on Friday October 08, 2010 @04:48AM (#1771037)
CAPL: consistency, availability, partition tolerance, latency

Paxos sacrifices latency

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Re:You Can't Sacrifice Partition Tolerance by kaib on Friday October 08, 2010 @08:35AM (#1771424)
Incorrect, paxos sacrifices availability. Paxos is consistent but does not necessarily ever terminate.
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