alt Hacker NewsThe 2010 is really important here. And Stonebraker is thinking about local databases systems and was a bit upset but the NoSQL movement push at the time.
And he is making a mistake in claiming the partitions are "exceedingly rare". Again he is not thinking about a global distributed cloud across continents.
The real world works with Eventual Consistency. Embrace it, for most 90% of the Business Scenarios its the best option: https://i.ibb.co/DtxrRH3/eventual-consistency.png
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hobs • today at 2:22 AM
I would say quite the opposite - most business have little need for eventual consistency and at a small scale its not even a requirement for any database you would reasonably used, way more than 90% of companies don't need eventual consistency.
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Remember also that "partition" is not "yes or no" but rather a latency threshold. If the network is connected but a call now takes 30 seconds instead of milliseconds, that is probably a partition