> By working with CockroachDB, we expect to be able to operate multiple active data centers – all perfectly synchronised with each other
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> Outside of Google, there is no solution like this available anywhere
Cassandra offers cross WAN, multi-DC strong consistency so the “no solution exists” line is nonsense. I built geo-aware, cross DC gaming platforms for ps3/x360 on Cassandra in 2009.
Unless this is another fun twist on words where they’re pretending like they’re beating CAP like how google asserts that their network is sufficiently reliable that partitions become a nonfactor, but of course the wording is a PR so who knows what they actually mean.
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> Outside of Google, there is no solution like this available anywhere
Cassandra offers cross WAN, multi-DC strong consistency so the “no solution exists” line is nonsense. I built geo-aware, cross DC gaming platforms for ps3/x360 on Cassandra in 2009.
Unless this is another fun twist on words where they’re pretending like they’re beating CAP like how google asserts that their network is sufficiently reliable that partitions become a nonfactor, but of course the wording is a PR so who knows what they actually mean.