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by FpUser 1745 days ago
CRDT is just a fancy term for the strategy that still has to eventually merge data. In case of CRDT the data organized / designed in a way that makes it easier. The keyword here is "merging" which by definition kills "infinite" scalability.

You can dance around all you want but you just can't beat laws of nature.

Sure you can always design something that works for your particular case but generic solution is not possible.

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Can't you arrange merging into ie. binary tree - in that setup you'd be collapsing merges into single one at the root and cummulative throughput at leaf nodes could be exponentially higher?