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by rogerdpack 3595 days ago
If it's like Cassandra, then you can kind of get around consistency problems by, for instance if you have a "replication" factor of 2, by instructing it to write to "2 instances before returning" (and then you turn around and read it after that, if you want to double check). Though of course while it's writing to the first, then second replica, it'll be inconsistent, but not for too long :)
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Yes, that is the difference between strongly consistent and eventually consistent.