Please stop calling databases CP or AP

The article convinced me that talking about databases as CP or AP is not very useful. The article did not convince me that CAP-centered thinking is itself harmful or counterproductive. It's true that C-Consistency and A-Availability are relatively blunt definitions in a landscape of diverse and subtle possible semantics. But their usefulness is that they represent our intuitive notions of what a database should do. If it were possible and had good performance, every single database system would provide C…

Martin Kleppmann applies critical thinking to the claims of NoSQL marketing; I wish I was aware of his work at the time. I always found it frustrating that the semantics of the word "Consistent" in ACID has nothing to do with the semantics of CAP "Consistency". ACID Consistency refers to integrity constraints while CAP Consistency seems to refer to Cache Coherence across nodes in a cluster. I was a little surprised that Kleppmann uses the idea of "Linearizability" to explain…