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cluckindan ◴[23 Oct 25 22:09 UTC] No.45687983[source]▶

Always instantly consistent, always available, and perfectly tolerant of partitioning.

Truly, it is the only database which can be scaled to unlimited nodes and remain fully CAP.

1. geoffbp ◴[24 Oct 25 02:35 UTC] No.45690121[source]▶

Is there a case where dev null can fail?

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2. tgv ◴[24 Oct 25 06:27 UTC] No.45691489[source]▶

I can think of two: whe running out of file descriptors or memory. But then /dev/null1 would fail too.

/dev/null is an ACID compliant database