ACID / Distributed Availability
Kind: tension
Record: tension:acid-distributed-availability
Canonical: Schema
"acid" (atomic-boundary layer) is traded against "Distributed Availability" (atomic-boundary layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Distributed Availability" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Atomicity / Distributed Scalability and before ACID / BASE/Eventual Consistency.