On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Tatu Saloranta <tsalora...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would think that there is also possibility of losing some > increments, or perhaps getting duplicate increments? > It is not just isolation but also correctness that is hard to maintain > but correctness also. This can be more easily worked around in cases > where there is additional data that can be used to resolve potentially > ambiguous changes (like inferring which of shopping cart additions are > real, which duplicates). > With more work I am sure it is possible to get things mostly working, > it's just question of cost/benefit for specific use cases.
Let me inject a couple useful references: http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2601 http://blog.basho.com/2010/04/05/why-vector-clocks-are-hard/