[mihasya]

The implication is that the people for whom eventual consistency is not an option will never reach a data set size or availability requirement that'll require them to use replication and experience the lag (and eventual consistency) involved.

[alexpopescu]

That's not completely true. Take a look at Google's Megastore paper: http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2011/Papers/CIDR11_Paper32.pdf

James Hamilton has a good summary of the ideas in the paper: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2011/01/09/GoogleMegastoreT...

[mihasya]

think you're viewing my statement out of the necessary context..

[batasrki]

Among major features touted are auto-sharding and replica sets. I don't know if the implication is that it's only for web apps/websites that won't need those