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Partial quorum

A partial quorum configuration allows a read response set and a write acknowledgement set that need not overlap.

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With uniform R- and W-member subsets of the same N replicas, non-intersection has probability C(N-W,R)/C(N,R); missing all k recent writes raises it to the kth power only under independent write selections. [1] Partial concerns overlap, whereas sloppy quorum concerns fallback membership. [2]

Relations

related
quorum-intersection, sloppy-quorum

Limitations

Citations

  1. Bailis et al. Probabilistically Bounded Staleness for Practical Partial Quorums. PVLDB 5(8), 776-787 (2012), equations 1-2. (accessed 2026-10-14)
  2. DeCandia et al. Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store. SOSP 2007, sections 4.5-4.6. (accessed 2026-10-14)
  3. Hesela: exact partial-quorum examples, assumptions and executable source (accessed 2026-10-14)

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