How to Talk About Consistency and Isolation in Distributed DBs

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Ben Darnell. "How to Talk About Consistency and Isolation in Distributed DBs." cockroachlabs.com, February 2022. Archived at perma.cc/53SV-JBGK

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How to talk about consistency and isolation in distributed DBs

The SQL standard defines isolation levels, but we don't have a great vocabulary for talking about consistency levels, and how these two things interact.

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