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Aerospike will happily ignore your requests if it feels like. Use it only if you don't care about correctness or losing data.


“In hundreds of tests of SC mode through network partitions, 3.99.1.5 and higher versions have not shown any sign of nonlinearizable histories, lost increments to counters, or lost updates to sets.” – Kyle Kingsbury, Aerospike 3.99.0.3, 12-27-2017

- https://aerospike.com/blog/aerospike-4-strong-consistency-an...

- https://jepsen.io/analyses/aerospike-3-99-0-3


Good for them. We got rid of Aerospike because using it in the "right" way to get data in and out correctly is a pain in the ass and makes everything slow.




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