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> quite possibly the only distributed database out there that lives up to its strict serializability claims

Jepsen has never tested FoundationDB, not sure why you claim this and link to Jepsen's site.

FDB co-founder here.

Aphyr / Jepsen never tested FDB because, as he tweeted "their testing appears to be waaaay more rigorous than mine." We actually put a screen cap of that tweet in the blog post linked here.

Just a heads-up for anyone diving deeper into this thread - I dug into the original tweet and managed to track down the parent tweet right here: [1]. Moreover, there's a snapshot on archive.org [2] capturing the reply along with the quote in question. Interestingly, there's also a snapshot from foundationdb.com [3] that discusses the outcomes of running Jepsen tests on FDB. Worth checking out for those interested in the technical nitty-gritty.

[1]: https://twitter.com/obfuscurity/status/405016890306985984

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220805112242/https://twitter.c...

[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150325003526/http://blog.found...

> not sure why you claim this and link to Jepsen's site.

They link to the website for a definition of the term they are using.

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