Understanding the CAP Theorem
Background The CAP theorem has become one of the hottest theorems in recent years; when discussing distributed systems, CAP is inevitably mentioned. However, I feel that I haven’t thoroughly understood it, so I wanted to write a blog post to record my understanding. I will update the content as I gain new insights. Understanding I read the first part of this paper. The CAP theorem [Bre12] says that you can only have two of the three desirable properties of: ...