[Info-vax] [OT] Data/system integrity, was: Re: HBVS, was: Re: WASD 11.0 announced.

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 4:30:06 AM UTC+12, Kerry Main wrote:
> According to the generally accepted distributed systems mantra, you
> have to worry about consistency, availability and persistence - pick 2.

The “P” in CAP stands for “partitioning”.

> As I was listening to the talk, I was thinking "Huh, why not all 3?"

Because it doesn’t work. That’s why it’s called a “theorem”.