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by kingkilr 5913 days ago
The C in CAP and the C in ACID are not the same C. Consistency in the ACID sense means that all constraints are met, Consistency in the CAP sense means all servers have the same data.
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I know. I actually explained this not too long ago here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1191003

But what I'm saying here is: You cannot have ACID transactions without the C in CAP.

fwiw, here is the formal version of the theorem from the gilbert/lynch proof paper:

Theorem 1. It is impossible in the asynchronous network model to implement a read/write data object that guarantees the following properties: * Availability, * Atomic consistency, in all fair executions (including those in which messages are lost).