CAP Theorem

Turkish equivalent: CAP teoremiDomain: Distributed Systems

CAP Theorem — A distributed-systems result stating that during a network partition a system cannot simultaneously guarantee both linearizable consistency and availability.

Consistency and Failure-Model Boundary

CAP concerns behavior during network partitions; it does not state that a distributed system must permanently choose only two of consistency, availability, and partition tolerance.

  • PACELC
  • Consistency
  • Availability
  • Network Partition

Related technical publications

Publications whose title or summary directly references this concept.

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