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Re:Consistency Without Clocks: FaunaDB's Distributed Transac... by jamesblonde on Friday October 19, 2018 @02:46PM (#18258979)
I should add that it is not correct to say 'our throughput is constrained not by our consensus protocol'. A trivial example would be a workload of transactions, where each transaction has at least two non-conflicting writes on different partitions. FaunaDB will serialize those transactions, and you will bottleneck on the consensus protocol - compared to NDB.
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Re:Consistency Without Clocks: FaunaDB's Distributed Transac... by ummonk on Sunday October 21, 2018 @12:51PM (#18268849)
What he's saying is that the throughput number they mention is constrained by transaction conflicts. The limit for non-conflicting transactions allowed by the consensus protocol is no doubt much higher.
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