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ACID vs BASE

As we all know traditional relational databases are implementing the ACID principles: atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability. Then there came Brewer’s CAP (consistency, availability and partition tolerance) conjecture that was leading the road towards BASE systems (basically available, soft state, eventually consistent).

Here are a couple of great resources about BASE:

BASE: An Acid Alternative by Dan Pritchett ☞

Eventually Consistent by Werner Vogels ☞

Brewer’s Conjecture and the Feasibility of Consistent, Available, Partition-Tolerant Web Services by Seth Gilbert and Nancy Linch

Thanks Debasish Ghosh ☞ for the links. You should also check the NoSQL, Relational and Storage in General entry.