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by curiousDog 4240 days ago
From what I understand, in real world distributed systems, you will always have P (despite what the name suggests, it's pretty much failures not just network partitions). The question is whether they'll choose A over C when a partial P happens (say you have 3 nodes and 2 go down, you have quorum loss, will you still keep the replica available and replicate lazily or will you make it unavailable until a 2nd replica comes up?). I'm guessing it'll be tunable/configurable in this case.