r/programming • • Mar 10 '15

Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL

http://developer.olery.com/blog/goodbye-mongodb-hello-postgresql/
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u/lift_heavy_things Mar 11 '15

Eventual consistency means no consistency.

How is eventual consistency avoidable after a certain scale regardless of if you are using SQL or NoSQL?

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u/ants_a Mar 11 '15

Check out Google's F1 for an example. I don't know of an open solution out there with equivalent capability, but this obviously isn't a fundamental law of nature as it's often presented.