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Re:Consistency Without Clocks: FaunaDB's Distributed Transac... by jchrisa on Friday October 19, 2018 @01:55PM (#18258583)
The global log is replicated using a Raft-like consensus mechanism, so that all replicas have a copy of the log, and agree on its order. So even if one replica site is lost, the others have a full copy of the log, and can continue.

You can learn more about Raft from this excellent visualization: http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/

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