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sneakyesterday at 8:44 PM1 replyview on HN

I believe this is called “eventual consistency”.


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ameliusyesterday at 8:55 PM

No, because if a transaction fails it still needs to be handled by the user in many cases.

E.g. if you buy a book, but it turns out the book was already sold, then you will first get a message "Your book is on its way!" and then "Oops, sorry, the book was already sold to someone else".

Eventual consistency is just a property of the database.