As discussed previously, distributed data stores allow us to store huge volumes of data while providing the ability to horizontally scale as a single logical unit at all times. Inherent to many distributed data stores are the following features:
- Consistency refers to the guarantee that every client has the same view of the data. In practice, this means that a read request to any node in the cluster should return the results of the most recent successful write request. Immediate consistency refers to the guarantee that the most recent successful write request should be immediately available to any client.
- Availability refers to the guarantee that the system responds to every request made by a client, whether that request was successful ...
