Tuesday, October 02, 2012

CAP Twelve Years Later: How the "Rules" Have Changed

CAP Twelve Years Later: How the "Rules" Have Changed: "The CAP theorem states that any networked shared-data system can have at most two of three desirable properties:

consistency (C) equivalent to having a single up-to-date copy of the data;
high availability (A) of that data (for updates); and
tolerance to network partitions (P).
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