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#420: Database Consistency & Isolation for Python Devs

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The Importance of Linearizability in MongoDB

There's only a sequence of operations in your position in it. Take another important piece of information here is that you're writing to the leader. The leader always knows what its point in time number is and it can increment that. And so that thing's always going to be consistent and auto-incrementing forward. It's just a matter of how caught up are the replicas. Exactly. If you want the MOG would DB terms for these, that sequence of operations is the op log and that counter is the op time. Yeah. That's basically that op log. That's the thing that gets pushed to the replicas and is copied as it goes.

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