Eric Brewer on Why Banks are BASE, Not ACID – Availability Is Revenue
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HN comment order>If an ATM is disconnected from the network and when the partition eventually heals, the ATM sends sends a list of operations to the bank and the end balance will still be correct. I don't think so. I support ATM client software for a large bank in the US and we certainly don't do this. This may be true for "remote" ATMs that are installed in convenience stores on POTS. I can't say I've ever actually heard of it though…
Interesting article, but it's really talking about ATM networks rather than the broader "banks". A bank's core systems could still hugely benefit from having an ACID compliant database even if any individual ATM node could still be allowed to operate independent for some amount of time to maximize availability. Consistency is a feature whose importance is regularly downplayed by hawkers of NoSQL databases. I've seen firsthand what happens when a NoSQL database scales out and it's not pretty — a…
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
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| 2013-05-02 | Eric Brewer on Why Banks are BASE, Not ACID – Availability Is RevenueFirst breakout · Best thread | abhijitr | 134 | 48 |
| 2016-09-17 | Eric Brewer on Why Banks Are BASE Not ACID – Availability Is Revenue (2013)Latest 20+ point return | mpweiher | 102 | 41 |
| 2022-05-30 | Eric Brewer on Why Banks Are Base Not Acid – Availability Is Revenue | prabhupant | 2 | 0 |