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I wish people would stop linking CAP theorem, as if it proves something about one database or the other. It doesn't. It expresses some useful things about tra
by alnayyir 15y ago
I wish people would stop linking CAP theorem, as if it proves something about one database or the other.
It doesn't.
It expresses some useful things about trade-offs but they aren't necessarily binary properties and it doesn't say anything about the underlying data structures or features of a database.
> then a lot of people don't need all that scalability. (And if it did, you'd use Hadoop anyway. =P
Maybe, not necessarily.