All about Eventual and Strongly Consistency

Eventual Consistent

  • Mainly used in NoSQL databases (Solr, Cassandra)
  • Used for analytics , time series analysis , etc
  • Low latency - Faster writes

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Strongly Consistent

  • Mainly used in RDBMS like Oracle , MySQL , PostgreSQL
  • Primarily used in banking and payment systems
  • High latency - Slower writes

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