(Disclaimer: Not an expert.. just sharing something I read somewhere) I think FoundationDB does something really interesting with this problem. When you make

(Disclaimer: Not an expert.. just sharing something I read somewhere) I think FoundationDB does something really interesting with this problem. When you make changes, you do it via a transaction. But all the client reads are using the previous version, until the transaction changes have propagated across the nodes, then the new value is returned.