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Database ACID

Growingest.Started 31 Aug 20261 min read#engineering #database

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Where it sits: Consistency

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Distributed Transactions Explained: 2 Phase Commit vs Saga Pattern cited

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Cassandra DatabaseGrowing
Cassandra is masterless. Cassandra has no Database ACID support. Bias towards Availability. Write heavy. Zero downtime needed (in traditional master/slave, there is a small downtime if master is down for the failover…
Common System Design PatternsGrowing
Database Replication and read replicas. Something something geolocalisation. Postgres has extensions for this.