CAP teorem pravi, da lahko porazdeljeni sistem zagotavlja največ dve od treh lastnosti — Konsistentnost, Dostopnost in Toleranco delitev — hkrati. Ker so razdelitve omrežja neizogibne, je prava izbira med konsistentnostjo in dostopnostjo med razdelitvijo.
Tri lastnosti
CONSISTENCY (C) → every read sees the latest write (all nodes agree on the data)
AVAILABILITY (A) → every request gets a response (the system stays responsive)
PARTITION TOLERANCE (P) → the system keeps working despite network partitions
(communication breaks between nodes)
→ CAP: you can only fully guarantee TWO of these three simultaneously.
