Re: Why is Quorum not sufficient for Linearization?

2014-10-18 Thread Evan Weaver
This is my understanding, others disagree. Sequential consistency: each program's order of reads is preserved Linearizability: each program's order of all reads as well as writes is preserved Assume a single process is making reads and writes to the same partition key, the replication factor is 3

Re: Why is Quorum not sufficient for Linearization?

2014-10-18 Thread DuyHai Doan
Hello Evan Why, in a scenario of resurrections of unacknowledged writes, don't we get linearizability ? Can you give more detailed explanation on such scenario ? @Oliver: true, the formal definition of linearizability is not related to isolation. My bad. And for your question "What does Cassandr