Where does mongodb stand in the CAP theorem?

Question

Everywhere I look, I see that MongoDB is CP. But when I dig in I see it is eventually consistent. Is it CP when you use safe=true? If so, does that mean that when I write wi

Answer 1

Yes, it is CP when using safe=true. This simply means, the data made it to the masters disk. If you want to make sure it also arrived on some replica, look into the 'w=N' parameter where N is the number of replicas the data has to be saved on.

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