Question 100
A retail group requires relational consistency, cross-region availability and horizontal scale for millions of distributed account transactions. Which limitation must be considered before claiming the issue is fully resolved?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Global consistency may add write latency and must be budgeted explicitly. This caution prevents extrapolating beyond the specific evidence or product boundary. Relational scale and consistency requirements affect database architecture. The unresolved point should be tested using transaction consistency requirements, regional latency budgets and write throughput model rather than assuming a working interface proves full compliance or resilience.
Incorrect Answers
Multi-region database placement guarantees low-latency writes from every location. This limitation is framed as a blanket exception, but the case requires a different, narrower caution. The relevant boundary is that global consistency may add write latency and must be budgeted explicitly. Relational scale and consistency requirements affect database architecture. Inspect transaction consistency requirements, regional latency budgets and write throughput model.
Spanner's multi-region configuration eliminates all commit latency trade-offs. The proposed claim mistakes an incomplete signal or product feature for a universal guarantee. The relevant boundary is that global consistency may add write latency and must be budgeted explicitly. Relational scale and consistency requirements affect database architecture. Inspect transaction consistency requirements, regional latency budgets and write throughput model.
Multi-region placement means all clients receive identical latency regardless of distance. This claim exceeds the evidence and ignores an important risk or operational dependency. The relevant boundary is that global consistency may add write latency and must be budgeted explicitly. Relational scale and consistency requirements affect database architecture. Inspect transaction consistency requirements, regional latency budgets and write throughput model.