Synchronizing Databases
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Agreement and Synchronization

In a synchronized system, one database commits changes, then another database changes accordingly. The lag between the two commits is called latency. If latency accounts for all of the difference between the data in two databases, the databases are said to be in agreement, even if they do not actually match. The process that copies data to maintain agreement is called synchronization. The Cloudsync operation that synchronizes databases is called the refresh operation.

Cloudsync guarantees that a source database and its targets are always in agreement.