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My understanding is the cost of all these weaker quorums is reduced fault tolerance. Is that correct?



Yes. In theory, maybe it's useful to have more flexibility to trade-off durability for performance (smaller quorum size hopefully reduces deciding latency [unless your small quorum contains the straggler!]) for specific kinds of data in the same replica group.

In practice though, it seems easier just to run separate instances of Paxos.




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