Looks like FaunaDB uses Raft[1], so I'd expect that data is sharded into multiple consensus groups, like Spanner or Megastore. That would mean consistency on a

Looks like FaunaDB uses Raft[1], so I'd expect that data is sharded into multiple consensus groups, like Spanner or Megastore. That would mean consistency on a single shard/consensus group is basically just dependent on reading from and writing to the Raft leader. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13645876 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13645876