CockroachDB's Consistency Model

1 · CockroachDB · Jan. 24, 2019, midnight
A few days ago, prompted by a Hacker News post, my friend Ivo texted me saying “Does your head ever explode when you’re thinking about databases and consistency semantics and whatever models? It just sounds like pointless taxonomy stuff. We are <N, K>-serializable whereas QuinoaDB is only ü-serializable”. The answer is yes — my head does explode. I don’t think it’s pointless, though, although I agree that the discussions are generally not exactly productive....