- A contract between a programmer and a system, wherein the system guarantees that if the programmer follows the rules for operations on memory, memory will be consistent and the results of reading, writing, or updating memory will be predictable. Consistency models are used in distributed shared memory systems or distributed data stores (such as file systems, databases, optimistic replication systems, or web caching). ← Wikipedia
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