CAP Theorem
Explore the CAP theorem to understand the trade-offs between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance in distributed databases. This lesson helps you identify how these qualities affect database performance and guides you in selecting the right storage solution for your applications.
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When working with distributed systems, we usually encounter some characteristics that are mutually exclusive. That is why it’s important for us to trade off such characteristics. Picking the right database for a project means considering availability, consistency and partition tolerance, and here is where the CAP theorem can prove useful.
Partition tolerance
This is an important concept in distributed systems. When talking about distributed systems it does not necessarily imply microservices or other similar architecture. It can be a simple monolith that interacts with a database. It is all about having components that communicate with each other over a network. Technology is not perfect and problems can appear. When such problems appear on a network it can lead to ...