"Eventual consistency" has a very particular meaning (when it's not being used as a buzzword). "Read uncommitted" doesn't even come close to the sorts of guara

"Eventual consistency" has a very particular meaning (when it's not being used as a buzzword). "Read uncommitted" doesn't even come close to the sorts of guarantees that people expect from an AP database. More importantly, MongoDB doesn't advertise itself as an AP database, it advertises itself as something you can use as the primary datastore for important information. Kyle has analyzed AP databases like Cassandra and Riak as well, and evaluates them according to their claims.