AWS, JavaScript, React - Deploy Web Apps on the Cloud - CAP Theorem for NoSQL Databases

The video tutorial explores the advantages of NoSQL databases, particularly their ability to scale horizontally across multiple instances, making them ideal for applications with large, evolving datasets. It contrasts this with relational databases, which are limited to vertical scalability. The tutorial also delves into the CAP theorem, explaining its three components: Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance, and how they apply to distributed systems. The lecture concludes by highlighting the differences between ACID compliance and the CAP theorem, setting the stage for the next lecture on database characteristics.

What does availability mean in the context of the CAP theorem?

Describe partition tolerance and its significance in distributed systems.