Lexicon

Last-Write-Wins Overwrite

Kind: model

Layer: Causality Core

Record: lexicon:last-write-wins-overwrite

Canonical: Lexicon

Resolving concurrent updates by keeping the most recent write, rather than merging all updates.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Conflict-Free Replica Convergence and before Metadata Overhead.

Category

  • Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time

In tension with

  • CRDTs
  • CRDTs / Last-Write-Wins Overwrite

Linked from

  • Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time
  • The resolutions