Re:Please stop calling databases CP or AP (2015)
by ses1984 on Monday September 07, 2020 @10:34AM
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If there is a partition and you want to execute a write on both sides of the partition, both sides can wait, but eventually one side wins and the other side gets back a failure, so the db turned out not to be available on that side. At least that's my interpretation.
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Re:Please stop calling databases CP or AP (2015)
by Autowired on Monday September 07, 2020 @10:53AM
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Well, for a system to be consistent (in the meaning of CAP) AND available, the problem with the concurrent writes would have to be solved anyway (i.e. via distributed locking), so I don't think this would be an issue after a partition event.