That's the point, you can't. Put quite many people say "you cannot have all three of Conistency, Available, Partition Tolerance", which sounds like you can kee

That's the point, you can't. Put quite many people say "you cannot have all three of Conistency, Available, Partition Tolerance", which sounds like you can keep any two / drop one at will. But the right starting point is: "Partitions will happen. When they do, do you drop A or C?"