Re: Riak synchronized

2012-02-14 Thread Martin Bruse
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Andres Jaan Tack wrote: > You should read > this: http://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/ > > Riak's primary application as a key-value store is precisely to provide a > mechanism to deal with partition tolerance. It borrows the inventive step o

Re: Riak synchronized

2012-02-14 Thread Andres Jaan Tack
> > All these things, of course, assume that the cluster is not > partitioned in any way more interesting than a bunch of nodes being > offline. Split brain would break all synchronization. You should read this: http://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/ Riak's primary applicati

Riak synchronized

2012-02-14 Thread Martin Bruse
Hello list, I am looking for some clever comments and critique. This is my first post, so have patience with my loutish behavior :) At the company where I work we have built an EventMachine based Ruby client to Riak that simplifies both asynchronous HTTP requests an