> By working with CockroachDB, we expect to be able to operate multiple active data centers – all perfectly synchronised with each other<p>...<p>> Outside of Google, there is no solution like this available anywhere<p>Cassandra offers cross WAN, multi-DC strong consistency so the “no solution exists” line is nonsense. I built geo-aware, cross DC gaming platforms for ps3/x360 on Cassandra in 2009.<p>Unless this is another fun twist on words where they’re pretending like they’re beating CAP like how google asserts that their network is sufficiently reliable that partitions become a nonfactor, but of course the wording is a PR so who knows what they actually mean.