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Re:Everything You Know About MongoDB Is Wrong by pritambaral on Thursday November 26, 2020 @12:52AM (#25217260)
> Sequential Consistency is the name for this model. Writes don’t get lost but ...

Writes can get lost if the primary dies and the secondary is promoted in the meanwhile.

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Re:Everything You Know About MongoDB Is Wrong by rubiquity on Thursday November 26, 2020 @12:30PM (#25221945)
Yes but this is dependent upon the specific replication protocol. Primary-Backup has this problem but Majority Quorums and Chain Replication do not.
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Re:Everything You Know About MongoDB Is Wrong by pritambaral on Thursday November 26, 2020 @01:17PM (#25222308)
The parent is talking specifically about 'Sequential Consistency'.
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Re:Everything You Know About MongoDB Is Wrong by rubiquity on Thursday November 26, 2020 @01:47PM (#25222588)
My point is that Sequential Consistency isn’t a replication protocol, it’s a consistency model that you can have under various different replication protocols.
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