Coined in 1998 by Prof. Eric Brewer of the University of California, Berkeley, the CAP theorem states the following: “In any distributed database design, in the face of Partition Tolerance, you can choose to design for either Consistency (CP) or Availability (AP). You cannot have both.”
Consistency
Consistency means that all clients see the same data at…
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