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by greenleafjacob 3432 days ago
Even with higher levels of "consistency" Mongo is still unsafe [1].

[1]: https://aphyr.com/posts/322-jepsen-mongodb-stale-reads
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DivineTraube 3432 days ago
That is definitely true for some of the older versions of Mongo. Still, a quorum write concern will yield far fewer consistency violations. An interesting trade-off to take: losing a little data is better than losing a little latency.
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