Revise · W00 · Part 6System Design Terminology & Theory
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CAP is C or A during a partition
Partitions will happen, so P isn't optional. During one, a CP system refuses what it can't confirm (ZooKeeper, etcd); an AP system answers with possibly stale data (Cassandra, DNS).
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