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  • Thursday, January 19, 2012

What does “eventual consistency” actually mean, and will developers embrace it?

Amazon’s new NoSQL database service DynamoDB launched this week, not with a bang but a whimper. Minutes into the live stream announcing the service, the video link went down, which was a bummer for the hundreds of people who tuned in and kicked off lots of jokes on Twitter about cloud database services and the notion of “eventual consistency” being a synonym for “inconsistency.” DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service that will run in the [...]

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