Brewers Conjecture and a characterization of the limits, and relationships between Consistency, Availability and Partition Tolerance in a distributed service

04/23/2019

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by   Amrith Kumar, et al.

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In designing a distributed service, three desirable attributes are Consistency, Availability and Partition Tolerance. In this note we explore a framework for characterizing these three in a manner that establishes definite limits and relationships between them, and explore some implications of this characterization.