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ReplicationData Systems

Also defined on When Machines Fail.

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• CDCchange data capture
• CRDTauto-merging data type
• eventual consistencycopies converge given time
• failoverpromote a new leader
• leader/followermaster/replica
• leaderlessno primary (Dynamo)
• LWWlast-write-wins
• multi-leadermany writable copies
• read repair / anti-entropyfix stale copies on-read / in-background
• read-your-writes / monotonic / consistent-prefixthe three lag-read guarantees
• replication laghow far a follower trails
• split braintwo leaders at once
• sync/async/semi-syncwait / don't wait / wait for one
• version vectorper-replica versions
• write conflictconcurrent edits to one record