[kevan]

>I can't help wonder if eventually consistent object stores will go the way of NoSQL databases, when a consistent, scalable hierarchical filesystem appears.

Of course they will. Eventual consistency is a huge tradeoff that I don't think anyone would make if they weren't forced to.

[yandie]

Then you trade availability with consistency. No system can't escape CAP

[kevan]

Exactly. Availability and partition tolerance are often hard requirements, so we have to do all sorts of gymnastics to deal with eventual consistency. In personal projects where availability isn't a big concern and my most precious resource is my own time I tend to make different tradeoffs.

[jamesblonde]

Maybe something like this - 1 million ops/sec on HDFS: http://www.logicalclocks.com/index.php/2016/10/14/hops-smash...