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Aug 3, 2025 · Fundamentals

Understanding Causal Consistency: Order Guarantees, Lamport Timestamps, and Total Order Broadcast

This article explains the challenges of implementing causal consistency, compares it with linear and sequential consistency, describes how order guarantees are enforced in leader‑based replication, introduces Lamport timestamps and total‑order broadcast, and outlines practical approaches for achieving causal consistency in distributed systems.