Consistency
Noun · Development
Definitions
The property that all nodes in a distributed system see the same data at the same time, or that a database transitions only between valid states. One of the three guarantees in the CAP theorem, alongside availability and partition tolerance.
In plain English: The guarantee that no matter which server you ask, you always get the same, most up-to-date answer.
Related Terms
- Eventual Consistency
- Consensus
- Distributed Systems
- Ecto
- JDBC
- NoSQL
- Query
- Record
- Replication
- Schema
- Shard
- Transaction
- Write-Ahead Log
- Time-Series Database
- Change Data Capture
- Vacuum
- IndexedDB
- B+ Tree
- LSM Tree
- WAL Replay
- Connection Leak
- DuckDB
- MapReduce
- Message Broker
- RDB
- Read Replica
- Realm
- Remote Procedure Call
- Retry Policy
- Tracing
- Turso