CAP theorem and Apache Ignite

Apache Ignite supports distributed transactional cache operations, and at the same time it is highly available. Supporting both ACID transactions and high availability is a big ask for any distributed data store. Distributed data stores follow the CAP theorem. Computer scientist Eric Brewer proposed the CAP theorem, and it says that a distributed data store cannot offer more than two of the following three capabilities:

  • Consistency: You will always get the latest and greatest data. Suppose you have two nodes, A and B, and someone is updating a document/record in node B and you are reading that same record from node A. You should get the latest update made to the record in node B.
  • Availability: You should always ...

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