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> namely when you need fully up-to-date information on every query, no matter what So you basically want full consistency (vs eventual consistency) in a distri

by amf12 8y ago

> namely when you need fully up-to-date information on every query, no matter what So you basically want full consistency (vs eventual consistency) in a distributed environment. You can set up you noSQL that way. I don't see how relational DB's are "better" than noSQL in consistency.

ric2b 8y ago
And if you do that you go back to the performance of one instance or (probably) worse.
- amf12 8y ago
  Absolutely, but isn't that the case for SQL too? My point being, noSQL is not worse than SQL if all you care about is storing and retrieving documents vs joins, etc.