On: Strong Eventual Consistency – The Big Idea Behind CRDTs

[cryptonector]

What is the monoid for table primary keys?

[BoiledCabbage → cryptonector]

Im guessing generating unique ids instead of incremental numbers?

Maybe not as long as uuids, but long enough to be comfortable they won't conflict withing your table/db.

Those will merge fine as two separate "rows".

[cryptonector → BoiledCabbage]

No, because primary keys are things like names, not random numbers.

[giovannibonetti → cryptonector]

Vector clocks, since they keep a separate counter for each client