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NewSQL are distributed database that prioritize consistency over availability - See Distributed Database - CAP Theorem (Consistency, Availability, Partition Tolerance)

Articles Related

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• Spanner (and its Cloud Spanner counterpart),
• FaunaDB,
• CockroachDB,
• YugaByte.

Network failure

In the event of a network partition, A CP system:

• will return an error or a time-out due because the information cannot be guarantee to be up to date
• and therefore experience a reduction in availability.

Documentation / Reference

• http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2018/09/newsql-database-systems-are-failing-to.html