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Distributed Systems

Field: Computer Networks

A system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another.

Sequence of Expressions

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It is impossible for a distributed data store to simultaneously provide more than two out of the following three guarantees: Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance.