Data Architecture and CAP Theorem: Where Does it Clash?

Editor’s note: Joep Kokkeler is a speaker for ODSC West this Fall. Be sure to check out his talk, “Capturing CAP in a Kappa Data Architecture,” there!

Before diving into different types of data architecture, let’s focus on the cap theorem first. The cap theorem states that in any system (excluding acid transactions for now) you can have two of the following but never all three: consistency, availability, and tolerance. To deal with this, you can make the …

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