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		brianpgordon on Nov 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How To Make An Infinitely Scalable RDBMS When I see a new distributed database, the first thing I want to know is "Is it AP or CP?" If you haven't answered that question yourself, it's likely you have a partition-intolerant system, and that in real-life scenarios people will lose data.

mtravis on Nov 25, 2013 | [–]

CP in a single site. Between sites, I haven't considered it too much.

glogla on Nov 25, 2013 | [–]

Do you think you could write more about this?

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