"Me, I tolerate writes that take a bit longer to keep things simple :)" It's not just to keep things simple, it's to keep things consistent :-) Some NoSQL syst

"Me, I tolerate writes that take a bit longer to keep things simple :)" It's not just to keep things simple, it's to keep things consistent :-) Some NoSQL systems (e.g., MongoDB) introduced a new P in the equation (Performance) and used this to justify a lot of questionable decisions that affected consistency (and durability!). They have come a long way since these early decisions though. If a system considers moderate latency as a partition, it would need to perform partition recovery on every write. That's why I'm not sure considering latency as partition is in line with the CAP theorem. Maybe it is more related to availability though (not sure).