Lexicon

Consistency Contract

Kind: technique

Layer: Atomic Boundary

Record: lexicon:consistency-contract

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for stating which reads may be stale, for how long, and how a client learns that its write is visible.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Read From Primary After Write and before Fix the Race.

Category

  • Transactions / State / Concurrency

Refactors

  • Read-Your-Writes Violation
  • Replication

Linked from

  • Anti-patterns
  • Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety