"Hi tani! Yeah, there needs to be a whole matrix of properties and these solutions laid out on them. This is all about balancing the requirements in one way or another and you can't have it all. It's gonna be a gold mine for writers of white-papers and analysts. However the question for architects right now is which solutions are here to stay and we can bet our infrastructures on. This is even more important than perfect fit to business needs, because when you chose something that goes away and is not maintained anymore you really need to spend a lot of resources to switch. To anyone wanting to know more about CAP theorem, I'd suggest reading http://www.julianbrowne.com/article......" - Andraž Tori