>> Software can not alter its behavior to match your desires if you do not tell it what you desire Why not have special types of transaction that would explici

>> Software can not alter its behavior to match your desires if you do not tell it what you desire Why not have special types of transaction that would explicitly define consistency expectations across a cluster. Make the normal default mirror all data across all clusters and require a lock across the entire cluster when inserting/updating/deleting. You would then be free to alter expectations and introduce sharding to improve performance as needed.