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by evanweaver 1897 days ago
It has to to acquire and release locks, so yes.
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ec109685 1897 days ago
Are you sure about that? DynamoDB is paxos based, so that seems unnecessary.

Given data is always replicated to at least 2 of 3 storage nodes before ACK’ing, you can always just read from 2 different replicas and be sure you have the latest data.

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evanweaver 1896 days ago
Oh, I thought you were referring to the multi-key consistent transactions, not single key strong consistency mode. I think you are correct.
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