<i>"You can’t escape eventual consistency in a distributed system."</i><p>Can't you, though, if you sacrificed availability?<p>I like to think <i>"Eventual Consistency"</i> is an euphemism for no consistency, mostly popularized by the MongoDB folks.<p>In my opinion it is not a coincidence that the term was almost unknown before 2009, the year MongoDB was introduced.<p><a href="https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%22eventual%20consistency%22&hl=en-US" rel="nofollow">https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%22event...</a>