6 docs tagged with "Transactions & consistency"

Rule: COMMIT SUCCESSFUL is a promise about your database's local rows, and nothing else.

Rule: decide which invariants must be true *right now*, and let everything else converge.

A consistency model is a contract about what a read is allowed to return. It is not a quality

Rule: ACID stops at the database boundary, and "localhost is a great lie." Across services you

Rule: the choice is a bet on how often writes actually collide, and being wrong is expensive in

Rule: a read-modify-write split across two statements is a race condition unless you have