Where does mongodb stand in the CAP theorem?

Question

Everywhere I look, I see that MongoDB is CP. But when I dig in I see it is eventually consistent. Is it CP when you use safe=true? If so, does that mean that when I write wi

Answer 1

As a brilliant new article showed up and also some awesome experiments by Kyle in this field, you should be careful when labeling MongoDB, and other databases, as C or A.

Of course CAP helps to track down without much words what the database prevails about it, but people often forget that C in CAP means atomic consistency (linearizability), for example. And this caused me lots of pain to understand when trying to classify. So, besides MongoDB give strong consistency, that doesn't mean that is C. In this way, if one make this classifications, I recommend to also give more depth in how it actually works to not leave doubts.