We have released a new white paper, which explains how we relate to Brewer’s CAP Thereom.

(We’ve decided to stop writing huge long technical posts on the blog – instead, we’ll write them as white papers, so we can send people PDFs of it; people keep complaining about reading multi-page posts on a blog!)

As you may have gathered, our product is based around a replicated database. But there’s a number of types of replicated database out there, so today I’m going to explain what type we have used, and why.

But first, let’s look at the problem we’re trying to solve.

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