Lexicon

Distributed Availability

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Atomic Boundary

Record: lexicon:distributed-availability

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which insisting on strong transactional consistency reduces availability across a distributed system.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after BASE/Eventual Consistency and before Durability.

Category

  • Transactions / State / Concurrency

In tension with

  • ACID
  • ACID / Distributed Availability

Linked from

  • Transactions / State / Concurrency
  • The resolutions