Top "Eventual-consistency" questions

Eventual consistency is a consistency model used in distributed computing that informally guarantees that, if no new updates are made to a given data item, eventually all accesses to that item will return the last updated value.

Eventual consistency in plain English

I often hear about eventual consistency in different speeches about NoSQL, data grids etc. It seems that definition of eventual …

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Amazon - DynamoDB Strong consistent reads, Are they latest and how?

In an attempt to use Dynamodb for one of projects, I have a doubt regarding the strong consistency model of …

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Elasticsearch read and write consistency

Elasticsearch doesn't have "read consistency" param (like Cassandra). But it has "write consistency" and "read preference". Documentation says the following …

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What does read-after-write consistency really mean on new object PUT in S3?

Amazon documentation (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/Introduction.html#ConsistencyModel) states: "Amazon S3 provides read-after-write consistency for …

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Meaning of eventual consistency in Cassandra?

What is the meaning of eventual consistency in Cassandra when nodes in a single cluster do not contain the copies …

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What is maximum Amazon S3 replication time on file upload?

Background We use Amazon S3 in our project as a storage for files uploaded by clients. For technical reasons, we …

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Read Operation in Cassandra at Consistency level of Quorum?

I am reading this post on read operations and consistency level in Cassandra. According to this post: For example, in …

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Looking for distributed/scalable database solution where all nodes are read/write? Not MongoDB?

I'm looking to implement a database that can be widely distributed geographically and such that each node can be read/…

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