April 2017
Beginner to intermediate
360 pages
9h 35m
English
Through tunable consistency, Cassandra allows us to choose where in the trade-off between consistency and failure-tolerance we are most comfortable. But the trade-off is there nonetheless; this is an unavoidable fact not just about Cassandra, but about all distributed systems. The trade-off between consistency and availability is formalized by the CAP theorem.
The CAP Theorem concerns the following three properties of a distributed system, from which it derives its name:
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