I believe the sickness you're thinking of is "distributed data index." Consistency, availability, tolerance: pick two (https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chap

I believe the sickness you're thinking of is "distributed data index." Consistency, availability, tolerance: pick two (https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/managing-critical-state.html https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/managing-critic...). If you think about the uptime constraints of www.google.com, you'll possibly conclude that the limits of distributed systems necessitate a solution where some data is transiently unavailable.