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Re:How RethinkDB Works – 7pm tonight at SF Data Engineering by aaronblohowiak on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @03:59PM (#6561794)
To extend what cperciva is saying: under partition, you MUST sacrifice either consistency or availability.

A good explanation is here: https://foundationdb.com/white-papers/the-cap-theorem/

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