This post looks at the application as a whole, not only the datastore. But for an eventually consistent big data store, AP is not possible. See http://blog.this

This post looks at the application as a whole, not only the datastore. But for an eventually consistent big data store, AP is not possible. See http://blog.thislongrun.com/2015/04/cap-availability-high-availability-and_16.html http://blog.thislongrun.com/2015/04/cap-availability-high-av...