According to the CAP Theorem, consistency means that every successful read request will return the result of the most recent write. In fact, this is an oversimplification, because there are many different forms of consistency.

In this lesson, we introduce the forms of consistency that are most relevant to us.

To accurately define all these forms really, we need to build a formal model. This is usually the consistency model.

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