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by vmaurin 697 days ago
Plot twist: in the article drawings, replica one and two are split by network, and it could fail.

The author seems to not understand what the meaning of the P in CAP
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hinkley 697 days ago
I missed your comment and just made the same comment with different words. He literally has a picture of a partition.
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jvanderbot 697 days ago
"Non failing node" does not mean "Non partitioned node", simple as that.

If you treat a partitioned node as "failed", then CAP does not apply. You've simply left it out cold with no read / write capability because you've designated a "quorum" as the in-group.

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