Are there any plans to run @aphyr's jepsen CAP testing system on influx? It doesn't give me a ton of confidence that you're redoing your clustering pretty much from scratch a 3rd time in a pre-1.0 piece of software.
It would also be excellent if you could post more on the not really CA and not really AP aspect of your new clustering design, and why no one has really done that before (from what I can tell). Why that is the best path forward.
I never nail it the first time around. The fact that they have explored the problem three times and revised their solution in pre 1.0 piece of software actually comforts me. pre 1.0 is a great time to make big revisions like this. It may have been close to good enough the first time, but the third iteration will undoubtedly be better. From @aphyr's blog it seems that other projects have issues with clustering, so the fact that influx's clustering design is unique isn't necessarily a detracting factor. It isn't not re-inventing the wheel if there is no tried and true solution they could be using.
We will be doing that testing in the future. I've already talked to Kyle about our design. We'll iterate on his and other smart people's feedback. That's one of the reasons the clustering alpha right now :)
It would also be excellent if you could post more on the not really CA and not really AP aspect of your new clustering design, and why no one has really done that before (from what I can tell). Why that is the best path forward.
Thanks for releasing such awesome OSS software.