summarizes the discussion.
Applications specifically financial transactions cannot cope
with underlying features provided by BASE. For example, in an
online banking application a user who has transferred a certain
amount of money to some account must get the confirmation about
the successful transaction instantly. However, if the original account’s
balance is untouched due to ‘‘eventual Consistence’’ the
user might end up issuing multiple transfers and eventually transferring
cash multiple times. Hence online banking applications in
general cannot cope with BASE properties, whereas for applications
such as Facebook, reading an old value in an instance of time
is acceptable, hence can possibly best fit for BASE.