[riku_iki]

reliable network and partitioning are two different things.

If your network is down, your clients can't connect DB too, and nothing works. State of network partitioning is harder to achieve, its more like if connection between two datacenters is down where DB replicas live, which is more rare because of all global connection redundancy.

[lima]

It's really the same thing. Network partitions can (and do) occur within a single DC.

> If your network is down, your clients can't connect DB too, and nothing works

This sounds simple, but can only be achieved with high certainty using distributed consensus.