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Re:Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL a... by Thaxll on Sunday September 05, 2021 @07:53PM (#28428897)
Google Spanner does the three.
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Re:Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL a... by erik_seaberg on Sunday September 05, 2021 @11:23PM (#28429910)
> The purist answer is “no” because partitions can happen and in fact have happened at Google, and during some partitions, Spanner chooses C and forfeits A. It is technically a CP system.

— https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/inside-clou...

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