Errors in Database Systems, Eventual Consistency, and the CAP Theorem | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACMCACM Web Account Membership in ACM includes a subscription to Communications of the ACM (CACM), the computing industry's most trusted source for staying connected to the world of advanced computing. Sign In Sign Up Recently, there has been considerable renewed interest in the CAP theorem [1] for database management system (DBMS) applications that span multiple processing sites. In brief, this theo
