Many things provide high availability, including hot backups that you manually promote to leader (i.e. the traditional database setup). However, it's distribut

Many things provide high availability, including hot backups that you manually promote to leader (i.e. the traditional database setup). However, it's distributed consensus that solves for strict serializability (I should say, not strict consistency) and high availability as a combination. See also the Jepsen page on consistency levels. https://jepsen.io/consistency/models/strict-serializable https://jepsen.io/consistency/models/strict-serializable