AI engineering glossary · SQL databases
What is BASE?
BASE: A contrasting acronym to ACID for many distributed NoSQL systems: Basically Available, Soft state and Eventually consistent. It favours availability and scalability over immediate strict consistency. It describes the trade-off many distributed stores choose.
BASE: an example
A shopping site keeps accepting cart updates during a partial outage and reconciles copies afterwards.
Related terms
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Where you learn it
BASE is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.