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Except that he leaves out vector clocks and read repair which are mechanisms critical to fixing consistency issues in a dynamo style system.

Also his treatment of partition tolerance assumes that operations set up the Dynamo cluster machines incorrectly; all in the same rack.

He also completely glosses over merkle trees, assuming that the sync they help perform must be a heavy operation.



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