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 PrincipleIf no new updates are made to a given data item, eventually all read accesses to that item will return the last updated value. 1 Connections
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1. Eventual consistency - Wikipedia
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all read accesses to that item will return the last updated value.
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