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Eventual Consistency

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A consistency model for distributed systems that guarantees only that, if no new updates are made, every replica of a piece of data will eventually converge to the same value, trading immediate consistency for higher availability and lower latency.

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Core Principle
If no new updates are made to a given data item, eventually all read accesses to that item will return the last updated value. 1
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1. Eventual consistency - Wikipedia
  • Lead section
    all read accesses to that item will return the last updated value.
  • In Group: System Architecture and Data Models, Lead
    Eventual consistency is a consistency model used in distributed computing to achieve high availability.
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