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Consistency - The same request returns the same data at T1 and T2 if there were no writes between T1 and T2. Basically, all reads see all previously completed writes.
Note Wikipedia defines this as all nodes see the same data at the same time, but that is incorrect because the CAP Theorem is defined in terms of the observed state the observed rather than the actual state of the system.
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What is Optimistic Availability?
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