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Marc Schlossberg
Inaccuracies in diagram and definitions

Marc Schlossberg

Jan 16, 2026

The diagram inaccurately shows RDBMS as the CA combo and NoSQL solutions for both CP & AP. In reality, there are no true CA options in a distributed system, RDBMS's are better for CA & NoSQL for AP.

Additionally, the last paragraph's usage of the word partition is confusing and inaccurate. At times it is correctly used to reference a network failure between nodes, but then other times it's used to refer the nodes themselves?

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