On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Dwight Merriman <dwi...@10gen.com> wrote: > yes - take a look at this app engine blog post: > > http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/09/migration-to-better-datastore.html > > if i read this correctly, app engine data store is pretty much in the > "strongly consistent" camp while cassandra is more eventually consistent -- > so really quite different. you would get higher availability on an EC > system but atomic updates become quite hard (at least when fully > generalized)
I get that GAE Datastore is more in the strongly consistent camp, but my proposal specified quorum reads and writes, also bringing it into the strongly consistent camp, no? -- Toby DiPasquale
