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About this paper
Martin Kleppmann
The paper replaces CAP’s binary framing of database trade-offs with a delay-sensitivity framework asking how operation latency changes as network delay increases. It summarizes lower bounds: linearizable reads and writes are O(d), sequentially consistent writes and reads are O(d) and O(1), and causal consistency gives O(1) for both. These results are not new proofs or measurements and assume unbounded delay and unsynchronized clocks.
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