BASE conceptacronym
Acronym contrasted with ACID: Basically Available (responses always come, may be stale or inconsistent), Soft state (state may change without input), Eventually consistent (replicas converge over time).
Acronym contrasted with ACID: Basically Available (responses always come, may be stale or inconsistent), Soft state (state may change without input), Eventually consistent (replicas converge over time). Philosophical packaging of the AP side of CAP. Useful as a banner but vague — "BASE" systems vary wildly in actual semantics, and stronger sub-models (read-your-writes, monotonic reads, causal consistency) are all technically "eventually consistent."