This blog post that I wrote a few months ago also explains the same issue, and may be of interest for those looking for a separate explanation: http://www.clou

This blog post that I wrote a few months ago also explains the same issue, and may be of interest for those looking for a separate explanation: http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2010/04/cap-confusion-problems-with-partition-tolerance/ http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2010/04/cap-confusion-problems-...