This is the sixth installment of our ongoing series on Big Data, how we see it, and how we build products for it. In this episode, we’ll cover the PACELC theorem. It is an extension of the CAP theorem, which describes trade-offs in distributed systems that exist before partition happens.
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After reading Big Data World, Part 5: CAP Theorem, you might think that this theorem hardly helps in actual de