
causal consistency
ensures all processes observe causally related operations on objects in identical order across the system
causal consistency in a sentence
“With causal consistency, a reply always appears after the message it responds to.”
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eventual consistency
after updates cease, sufficient time and messaging ensure every node reaches identical final values
history
a collection of operations performed by a system including process information and timing details
linearizability
operations appear to execute atomically in a total order consistent with real-time ordering on single objects
monotonic atomic view
strengthens read committed by requiring that once a transaction observes another's effects, it observes all of them
monotonic reads
each process observes a monotonically advancing system view; once a write is observed, it remains visible
monotonic writes
if a single process performs two writes, all other processes observe them in that same order