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Yeah, when I read about that I thought it sounded neat—make sure the index updates with the data. On the other hand, I think of CAP theorem as an iron triangle. If you are gaining consistency, what’s the trade off?



This _is_ the usual trade off, but what makes FoundationDB so crazy is that it's a CP system that has a performance profile that AP systems would have a hard time matching.




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