jeremiahjordan
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Comment · 12 years ago
This is an interesting use of the HyperLogLog algorithm. And yay for less RAM overhead.
Comment · 13 years ago
They are atomic, they are not isolated. Those are two different properties. The "A" vs the "I" in ACID. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID
Edit: Actually, they are isolated in the sense of ACID, doesn't matter what order you do to operations, the answer will be the same. But not isolated the way you want isolated described.
Comment · 13 years ago
"Minutes" is not "unaffected" if your site is now down.
Comment · 13 years ago
This is the reason our company creates their own packages and runs our own repositories.
Comment · 13 years ago
But that isn't W=1
Comment · 13 years ago
even if switch failures are rarer, couch at W=1 will silently drop data for network partition, dynamo at W=2 won't, how is the comparison at the end valid?