Github user rnewson commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation/pull/81#discussion_r82755971
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@@ -230,6 +230,14 @@ that will occur giving you a quick response and when
views will be updated
which will take a long time. (A 10 million document database took about 10
minutes to load into CouchDB but about 4 hours to do view generation).
+In a cluster, "stale" requests are serviced by a fixed set of shards in
order
+to present users with consistent results between requests. This comes with
an
+availabilty trade-off - the fixed set of shards might not be the most
responsive
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