Data Consistency Paradigms
Learn about the ACID and BASE data consistency paradigms and their roles in distributed systems. Understand immediate versus eventual consistency, how they affect transaction design, and patterns like Saga and CQRS to build resilient, scalable event-driven applications.
The two primary consistency paradigms to be aware of are referred to as ACID and BASE. We’ll define these acronyms in the following sections and understand what they are and how they differ. To help remember these acronyms, we can use an analogy from chemistry, where a BASE is the opposite of an ACID.
ACID paradigm/immediate consistency
As previously noted, ACID stands for atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable.
With immediate ...