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Re:Consistency Without Clocks: FaunaDB's Distributed Transac... by mcguire on Friday October 19, 2018 @05:24PM (#18260172)
Can you partition your batch transactions, so that all up to the conflict succeed?
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Re:Consistency Without Clocks: FaunaDB's Distributed Transac... by jchanimal on Friday October 19, 2018 @06:15PM (#18260494)
My understanding is yes, we commit to the log in batches, but abort conflicts at the transaction level. So only the conflicts have to suffer the retry loop, everything else is durably committed.
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