Abstract: The CAP theorem’s impact on modern distributed database system design is more limited than is often perceived. Another tradeoff-between consistency and latency -has had a more direct influence on several well-known DDBSs. A proposed new formulation, PACELC, unifies this tradeoff with CAP.
@article{abadi2012consistency,
title={Consistency tradeoffs in modern distributed database system design: CAP is only part of the story},
author={Abadi, Daniel},
journal={Computer},
volume={45},
number={2},
pages={37--42},
year={2012},
publisher={IEEE}
}