Dynamo Systems Work Too Hard

Re:Dynamo Systems Work Too Hard by jeremiahjordan on Friday May 03, 2013 @05:20PM (#5652707)

even if switch failures are rarer, couch at W=1 will silently drop data for network partition, dynamo at W=2 won't, how is the comparison at the end valid?

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Re:Dynamo Systems Work Too Hard by damienkatz on Friday May 03, 2013 @05:28PM (#5652749)

"...if the client wanted true multi-node durability, then the write wouldn't have succeeded (the client would timeout waiting for replicas(s) to receive the update) and the client wouldn't unknowingly lose data."

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Re:Dynamo Systems Work Too Hard by jeremiahjordan on Friday May 03, 2013 @05:38PM (#5652789)

But that isn't W=1

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Re:Dynamo Systems Work Too Hard by damienkatz on Friday May 03, 2013 @05:49PM (#5652851)

Ok, you're right. I just changed it to W=2, and all the numbers are the same.

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