!!! Overview [{$pagename}] is a [consistency] model used in [distributed Data Store] to achieve high [availability] that informally guarantees that, if no new updates are made to a given [data] item, eventually all accesses to that item will return the last updated value. [{$pagename}] is widely deployed in [distributed Data Stores], often under the moniker of [Optimistic replication], and has origins in early mobile computing projects. A system that has achieved [{$pagename}] is often said to have converged, or achieved [replica convergence] or reach a consistent [state] [{$pagename}] is a weak guarantee – most stronger models, like linearizability are trivially eventually [consistent|Consistency], but a system that is merely [{$pagename}] does not usually fulfill these stronger constraints. [{$pagename}] services are often classified as providing [BASE] ([Basically Available Soft state Eventual consistency]) semantics, in contrast to traditional [ACID] ([Atomicity], [Consistency], [Isolation], [Durability]) guarantees. [{$pagename}] is sometimes criticized as increasing the complexity of distributed software applications. This is partly because [{$pagename}] is purely a liveness guarantee (reads eventually return the same value) and does not make safety guarantees: an [{$pagename}] system can return any value before it has achieved [replica convergence]. !! More Information There might be more information for this subject on one of the following: [{ReferringPagesPlugin before='*' after='\n' }]