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> however, I think the article would benefit from distinguishing this approach from a 'real' database. that is MVCC gets you a lot more concurrency because it spreads out the exclusionary state in both time and space.

I thought I already was going to be seen as being unfairly critical of the course-ness of the concurrency control.

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in any case thanks for writing it up. I was just thinking about doing this in a broadcast domain to provide the same kind of low-throughput bootstrapping consistency that people would normally use zookeeper or etcd for. its certainly very useful in the cases where it fits.