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Consistency Models

Consistency Models

Feb 10, 20261 min read

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  • consistency

Consistency Models

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Different guarantees about how and when updates become visible to readers across distributed replicas. Stronger consistency is easier to reason about but harder to achieve with high availability and performance. Weaker consistency allows better performance but complicates application logic.

Concepts

  • Strong Consistency
  • Sequential Consistency
  • Causal Consistency
  • Eventual Consistency
  • Read-Your-Writes

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  • CAP Theorem
  • Causal Consistency
  • Eventual Consistency
  • Read-Your-Writes
  • Sequential Consistency (Distributed)
  • Strong Consistency
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