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Why isn’t RDBMS Partition Tolerant in CAP Theorem and why is it Available?

June 10, 2023 by Tarik

It is very easy to misunderstand the CAP properties, hence I’m providing some illustrations to make it easier. Consistency: A query Q will produce the same answer A regardless the node that handles the request. In order to guarantee full consistency we need to ensure that all nodes agree on the same value at all … Read more

Where does mongodb stand in the CAP theorem?

November 25, 2022 by Tarik

MongoDB is strongly consistent by default – if you do a write and then do a read, assuming the write was successful you will always be able to read the result of the write you just read. This is because MongoDB is a single-master system and all reads go to the primary by default. If … Read more