(f) BASE instead of ACID: The acronym BASE was purposely chosen to contrast to ACID paradigm.
NoSQL emphasizes on ‘‘Availability’’ and ‘‘Performance’’.
Building a database providing ACID properties is difficult, therefore Consistency and Isolation are often forfeited, resulting in most of the BASE approach application.
One of the basic concepts behind BASE is that data consistency is to be taken care by the developer’s problem and should not be handled by the database.