What kinds of web information systems will BASE be useful for?

I have found that BASE – An Alternative to ACID There is a continuum between ACID and BASE ACID guarantees strong consistency but cannot achieve high availability BASE trades off strong consistency for high availability

Depending on the concrete application, software engineers must decide how close they want a web information system to be to one end of the continuum or the other

and accepting eventual consistency leads to a new paradigms for web information systems: BASE