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Piotr Kołaczkowski edited comment on CASSANDRA-5062 at 2/25/13 5:58 AM:
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+1 for Paxos.

I particularly like the idea it doesn't rely on having one distinguished 
coordinator (proposer) to guarantee correctness.
                
      was (Author: pkolaczk):
    +1 for Paxos.
                  
> Support CAS
> -----------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-5062
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5062
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: API, Core
>            Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
>             Fix For: 2.0
>
>
> "Strong" consistency is not enough to prevent race conditions.  The classic 
> example is user account creation: we want to ensure usernames are unique, so 
> we only want to signal account creation success if nobody else has created 
> the account yet.  But naive read-then-write allows clients to race and both 
> think they have a green light to create.

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