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Re:NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blam... by gregwebs on Friday September 21, 2018 @11:53AM (#18040576)
Losing a majority due to various faults is not equivalent to a network partition. In practice for the systems you are working with it may have a similar effect (or a much worse one!), but in theory it is possible to recover from these faults in a short amount of time as long as there are no network disruptions.
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Re:NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blam... by adrianmonk on Friday September 21, 2018 @03:22PM (#18042008)
In particular, if a node is completely down, that's likely a lot better than a network partition because it eliminates the possibility that it's going to be accepting read and write requests that could have stale data or create inconsistent data (respectively).
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