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Re:Startups should use a relational database by pkolaczk on Sunday December 22, 2013 @05:58AM (#6949986)
CAP theorem says it cannot be done at the same time. But it is perfectly fine to sacrifice consistency for availability at the time partition happens and restore consistency once the partition is fixed. Still better than nothing if revenue counts. Financial institutions do like that all the time.

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