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by dimi-31 4046 days ago
Pretty interesting read, the concept of tunable consistency was foreign to me, keep on the good work !
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samplonius 4046 days ago
Riak has the same sort of concept: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/theory/concepts/Eventual-C...

I think Riak is richer in this area than Cassandra, because if the inconstancy can not be resolved, Riak can keep both versions and let you deal with it at the application level.

See also: https://aphyr.com/posts/294-call-me-maybe-cassandra

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sciurus 4046 days ago
You may be interested in the Dynamo paper, which is what introduced it to me: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp...
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