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		lucio on July 14, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Illustrated Proof of the CAP Theorem What about partial partitions, let's say you have 7 nodes, and 4 of them can't see the other 3, while the client can see all of them? There are systems tolerant to these partitions (see PAXOS)

vladf on July 14, 2018 [–]

Your definition of tolerant is incompatible with availability from CAP. The Paxos 3/7 minority in your example can't make progress when partitioned from the other 4 machines.

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