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You have some interesting points, however Eric Brewer isn't just 'some Google guy discussing CAP'. He actually invented the theorem... It's also known as 'Brewer's Theorem'.

FWIW, CAP is not about NoSQL or the 'NoSQL movement', it's about distributed systems and distributed shared memory, which applies to a whole range of computing problems.

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I've edited my comment to give him that credit. I understand the CAP theorem applies to many things. The reason I tied NoSQL in is that it's often cited as the reason people traded away strong consistency. Yet, there were strongly-consistent setups with the desirable properties in production and in academia. He and others rarely mention them in such discussions. It's why I tied them together.

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