CAP is not the full picure: PACELC comes to rescue

Bringing this interesting read back to the surface, I (like many) had initially been bewildered by the CAP theorem. This post clarifies the ambiguities and extends the categories of a distributed system. Note, I pasted the wrong link in the submission: this is the post I intended to share: https://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/04/problems-with-cap-a...