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More information on what cperciva is saying (from Daniel Abadi)

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2012/10/ieee-computer-issue-...

Quoting from the post:

     "my past criticism of CAP not actually being about picking two of three out 
      of C (consistency), A (availability), and P (partition tolerance) due to the 
      fact  that it does not make sense to reason about a system that is ‘CA’. (If 
      there is no partition, any system can be both consistent and available ---  
      the only question is what happens when there is a partition --- does 
      consistency or availability get sacrificed?)"