What is stale indexing?

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I've Started learning RavenDb, often I used to come across "stale indexing", couldn't find a better understanding of it. I tried documentation, but couldn't capture an easy way to grasp the point.

When I used SQL, I haven't heard anything about stale indexing. Is it special in no SQL databases?

NOTE: I haven't added the code, since my base knowledge of RavenDb is completely zero.

Can anyone point me in the right direction. It would be really helpful if someone give a real case scenario of using stale indexing.

Thanks in advance.

This question is not a good fit for StackOverflow. I see you already asked in the RavenDB Google Group. — Matt Johnson-Pint, Aug 16 '13 at 21:28
I just Googled 'stale indexes' and the 1st result is a RavenDB page describing what stale indexes are. — Adrian Thompson Phillips, Aug 19 '13 at 08:48

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 18 '13 at 13:58

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Many noSQL databases compromise consistency for speed, and hence allow e. g. the index to be a bit out of synch during data updates. It will be eventually consistent.

edited Aug 18 '13 at 13:58

Aravind Yarram

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answered Aug 16 '13 at 19:15

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