Everything You Know About MongoDB Is Wrong(developer.mongodb.com) |
Everything You Know About MongoDB Is Wrong(developer.mongodb.com) |
Isn’t this exactly what eventual consistency is? Or am I missing something? If a client performs a read query on the primary, followed by a second read on a secondary (perhaps because the primary server is unavailable), then it seems clear that there could be a chance of reading stale data.
TL;DR stale and consistent is better than inconsistent.