What does atomic (or linearizable) consistency mean?

Technology CommunityCategory: CAP TheoremWhat does atomic (or linearizable) consistency mean?
VietMX Staff asked 3 years ago

Atomic, or linearizable, consistency is a guarantee about what values it’s ok to return when a client performs get() operations. The idea is that the register appears to all clients as though it ran on just one machine, and responded to operations in the order they arrive.