Yep, exactly. It's actually pretty trivial for some work. If you can do that, you get the best of both worlds. Lots of queries can be answered with stale data,

Yep, exactly. It's actually pretty trivial for some work. If you can do that, you get the best of both worlds. Lots of queries can be answered with stale data, which means you drop the massive overhead of strong consistency and transactional workloads.