ACID transactions in a globally distributed database
&gt; industry experience has taught us that availability—in the strict sense that it is defined in the CAP theorem—is overrated: In practice, the uptime of systems that favor availability have not proven greater than what can be achieved with consistent systems.<p>The answer to any distributed consistent database is always the same: we gave up on one letter in CAP. In this case, it was &#x27;A&#x27;, availability.<p>And hey, cool, that&#x27;s certainly an option. But I&#x27;d prefer if they had simply made that the subtitle.