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0 pointsweb0079y ago0 comments

That makes a lot more sense then. It's still a misleading statement to say "writes" vs "transactions" since you could (potentially) make fewer writes and support more transactions. The ratio between the two is a measure of efficiency, but only transactions matter to end-users.

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evanweaver9y ago

You're right that one number trades off another. I'm not sure that only transactions matters, though.

Tracking logical writes makes the test comparable to tests of key-value stores that can only update one key at time, which is pretty much every other distributed database.

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evanweaver9y ago

You're right that one number trades off another. I'm not sure that only transactions matters, though.

Tracking logical writes makes the test comparable to tests of key-value stores that can only update one key at time, which is pretty much every other distributed database.

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