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>deterministic, reliable and consistent

Is there a formal definition for all three terms?

* Deterministic - the system is intrinsically incapable of undefinable behavior, provably so. (Though extrinsic factors like hardware or network failure could result in undefinable behavior).

* Consistent - Every read receives the most recent write or an error (from CAP Theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem)

* Reliable - ?




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