Hi,
Just found this, might be a worthwhile read [1]:
"Modern geo-replicated databases underlying large-scale Internet
services guarantee immediate availability and tolerate network
partitions at the expense of providing only weak forms of consistency,
commonly dubbed eventual consistency. At the moment there is a lot of
confusion about the semantics of eventual consistency, as different
systems implement it with different sets of features and in subtly
different forms, stated either informally or using disparate and
low-level formalisms. [...]"
Michael
[1] http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=189249
