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Hervé BAKONGO's avatar

Thanks, It is the Best article I have read about CAP THEOREM.

Ankit Singh's avatar

This is great, one of the best articles on CAP I have read so far.

Ali's avatar

Hey I posted part 1/4 of my series on the CAP theorem. I would love to get your thoughts on it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/ahmazin/p/cap-theorem-explained?r=1tezps&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=poster

Kunal's avatar

Quorum based approach can also provide availability as even if some nodes are not available, system still will be able to response with the available nodes result.

Aditya Keshri's avatar

Ashish , I think MY SQL database follow the tradeoffs of "CA" , you mentioned it in the wrong category of (CP). Kindly correct it.

M99sou's avatar

i think MySQL prioritizes consistency over availability in case of network partitions. Suppose it's a master-slave replication with synchronous replication, if the master fails, the system may block writes to ensure consistency