[infinispan-dev] Distributed Counter Discussion

[Tristan Tarrant]

On 07/04/2016 15:06, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
> For the "eventually consistent" case, returning a local value might be
> fine but you'd need to define also how writes are merged and what
> guarantees it aims to provide (or which we want to intentionally
> ignore)

Fortunately a counter has commutative ops, so order is unimportant and 
it makes things so much easier ;)

> And what about the sequence use case? I guess it can wait, just
> tracking the need for that too.

Yes, that is a separate thing as it needs far stricter guarantees.

Tristan

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Tristan Tarrant
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