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Right. If full consistency is a requirement than you can still have it, at the cost of availability. Alternatively, since the dataset is immutable, it contains a history of everything that happened. So you can resolve problematic actions later on (this is similar to what banks do).

It's important to realize that the tradeoff between consistency and availability is a limitation of nature, not of our tooling.




So CAP is still a problem, not beaten.




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