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The problem is that the slower it is the more the window for error grows. And the harder it is to recover. It also impose a high boundary to latency. You cannot be faster than your clock error without risks.

Note that even Spanner had multiple downtime due to clock and/or network failures. In these case, any operation lal guarantees are lost. This makes it really dangerous.



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