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Consistency in CAP and Consistency in ACID have entirely separate meanings.



The C in ACID has a different definition of Consistency, yet the combination of guarantees given by ACID should also imply Consistency in the distributed system sense, right? I.e. a distributed database that claims to be ACID cannot sacrifice consistency [edit: at least for some isolation levels].


Isolation (the I in ACID) is more closely related to the notion of consistency in the distributed system community.




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