It appears that they don't actually understand what the problem is, and are solving it by introducing a situation where the database will just stop working in the face of a partition. Maybe that's not right, but they need to stop hand waving.
Hi - FoundationDB founder here. I'll point you to a comment thread from a previous HN discussion where my co-founder Dave Scherer addressed how we deal with partitions:
Please let us know if you have any questions this doesn't answer and we'd be happy to answer. Also, if you'd like to actually SEE us deal with a data partition, we can show you that live at Disrupt with the demo cluster we've built :)
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It appears that they don't actually understand what the problem is, and are solving it by introducing a situation where the database will just stop working in the face of a partition. Maybe that's not right, but they need to stop hand waving.
A much better solution is being worked on by a Mr. Hellerstein who will be speaking at the upcoming Ricon: http://basho.com/community/ricon2012/
Hi - FoundationDB founder here. I'll point you to a comment thread from a previous HN discussion where my co-founder Dave Scherer addressed how we deal with partitions:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4295770
Please let us know if you have any questions this doesn't answer and we'd be happy to answer. Also, if you'd like to actually SEE us deal with a data partition, we can show you that live at Disrupt with the demo cluster we've built :)