# Brewers Conjecture and a characterization of the limits, and relationships between Consistency, Availability and Partition Tolerance in a distributed service

## TL;DR

This paper explores the fundamental trade-offs and relationships between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance in distributed services, providing a framework to understand their limits.

## Contribution

It introduces a framework that characterizes the limits and relationships among the three attributes, building on Brewers Conjecture.

## Key findings

- Defines the limits of consistency, availability, and partition tolerance in distributed systems.
- Establishes relationships and trade-offs between the three attributes.
- Implications for designing resilient distributed services.

## Abstract

In designing a distributed service, three desirable attributes are Consistency, Availability and Partition Tolerance. In this note we explore a framework for characterizing these three in a manner that establishes definite limits and relationships between them, and explore some implications of this characterization.

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1904.12636