CAP is Only Part of the Story, we need PACELC

Every sharded-data system (a distributed datastore) has (or aims for) three fundamental properties: data consistency, data availability, and that it is tolerant to a network partition (a subset of nodes not being able to reach the rest of the cluster). But due to simple laws of physics it is impossible to have all of these. …

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