IMHO 'Eventual consistency' and related 'consistencies' are not really giving a consistent state, as they're more about a promise that the system will reach a c

IMHO 'Eventual consistency' and related 'consistencies' are not really giving a consistent state, as they're more about a promise that the system will reach a consistent state 'eventually', but when that happens is unknown: in a volatile database, the system could never reach a consistent state, due to the lack of linearizability. See: http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/03/23/consistency-alphabet-soup/ http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/03/23/consistency-alphabe...