I don’t think either is better than the others, it’s not just one or the other. These are very different systems, each with their strengths and weaknesses, so it really depends on your use cases. They can definitely be used in complement of one another in the same infrastructure. To explain the difference better I’d … Read more
It is very easy to misunderstand the CAP properties, hence I’m providing some illustrations to make it easier. Consistency: A query Q will produce the same answer A regardless the node that handles the request. In order to guarantee full consistency we need to ensure that all nodes agree on the same value at all … Read more
MongoDB is strongly consistent by default – if you do a write and then do a read, assuming the write was successful you will always be able to read the result of the write you just read. This is because MongoDB is a single-master system and all reads go to the primary by default. If … Read more