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Date Published
Author
Dj Walker-Morgan
Word count
506
Language
English
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None

Summary

Safe Secondary Reads in MongoDB enable the sharded cluster to provide more accurate and consistent results when querying secondary nodes during data migrations. This feature ensures that both primary and secondary nodes are aware of the chunk migration status, allowing for correct routing of queries and avoiding duplicated results. By replicating the routing table from primary to secondary nodes, safe secondary reads make secondary node read operations more predictable, which is particularly important in combination with unified timestamps and the global logical clock in transactions.