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by willy_k 1437 days ago
It’s not a real-time operating system. In this case, real-time means it is built such that a client gets access to updated database values as soon as they change, as opposed to a non real-time database which doesn’t necessarily have a built-in mechanism for reliably on time updates.
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You mean like eventual consistency vs immediate consistency? Because a database that reflects its changes at the end of a transaction is called an ACID database not a real-time database.