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  • Paxos? Commented Jul 18, 2013 at 4:59
  • Also Eventual consistency. Commented Jul 21, 2013 at 8:10
  • Can you focus this question a bit? As it stands, it sounds like a survey/polling question. The second part seems answerable as "What characteristics make such a database possible?" Commented Jul 23, 2013 at 1:44
  • @WorldEngineer Edited. Commented Jul 23, 2013 at 11:47
  • A similar question has already been asked. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_transaction offers a few ideas, also emphasizing that "two phase commit" is the most common solution to overcome such problems. Check out this question to get the complete answer. programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/186980/… Commented Jul 26, 2013 at 9:30