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Discussion on: Explain NoSQL Databases Like I'm Five

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Nested Software • Edited

There is such a thing as distributed relational databases, known as NewSQL. In fact, they seem to offer stronger guarantees than eventual consistency (in hopefully rare cases, they'll compromise on availability). For instance, Cloud Spanner, NuoDB.

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Ken Bellows

Huh, that's super interesting! I'll have to dig deeper on that one