The CAP Theorem in Plain English
Learners will understand consistency, availability, and partition tolerance trade-offs that shape every distributed database.
Why Distributed Systems Are Hard
Spreading data across many servers buys scale but brings distributed systems headaches: nodes must agree even when the network hiccups. Enter the CAP theorem.
The Three Properties: C, A, P
The CAP theorem says a distributed store can guarantee only two of three: Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance. The catch: partitions always happen.
All lessons in this course
- The Relational Database Bottleneck
- NoSQL Flavors: Document, Key-Value, Column, Graph
- The CAP Theorem in Plain English
- Where MongoDB Fits In