[infinispan-dev] DIST and CAP

Bela Ban bban at redhat.com
Fri Mar 23 06:53:10 EDT 2012


Changed the subject...

I got unsure about what Infinispan's DIST mode provides with respect to 
CAP (see below).

I would argue availability and partitioning, but not consistency, as a 
network partition and subsequent healing might lead to incorrect values...

Thoughts ?


On 3/22/12 3:33 PM, Dan Berindei wrote:

>> We're trying to provide the C, the A and the P (of CAP), with perhaps a
>> slighly degraded A. This may not be feasible... especially on large
>> clusters where nodes come and go with a higher frequency than in a small
>> cluster.
>>
>
> Slight correction here: we are only trying to provide C and A. We
> don't really have anything to handle P yet...


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