Drawbacks of NoSQL Databases in Distributed Systems NoSQL databases may be more flexible, but they have their drawbacks. They're designed for distributed use cases, and multiple right shards for the same data partition can support right-heavy systems. However, there's a trade-off: a loss of strong consistency after a right to a shard in a distributed NoSQL cluster. This delay before updates are propagated to other replicas means reading from a replica can result in accessing stale data. #NoSQL #