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by jongraehl 4054 days ago
The article presents a really dumb argument: that because CAP only proves it's impossible to have CP and AP for a single record, and we care about more than one record, we shouldn't use the CAP impossibility result.

> The CAP system model is a single, read-write register – that’s all. For example, the CAP theorem says nothing about transactions that touch multiple objects: they are simply out of scope of the theorem, unless you can somehow reduce them down to a single register. [WHICH YOU CAN. DUH. SINGLE-REGISTER IMPOSSIBILITY OF CONSISTENCY APPLIES TO ALL N>=1]