Monday 16 February 2015

ACID vs CAP

ACID - set of properties that define the quality of database transactions.



CAP - Consistency, Availability, Partition Tolerance

3 basic properties or requirements for distributed System. Assuming a Distributed Database system, where data is distributed/partitioned across nodes/servers


All 3 properties is hard to achieve. So at least a combination 2 properties from the above is acceptable.





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