Event Store is a database engine that allow no-sql data to be stored as stream of events. The engine is based on a well know distributed algorithm called Paxos

In brief, when a write is sent to an Event Store cluster, the master will write the events and replicate them to the other nodes in the cluster. The master will then wait for a quorum of nodes (cluster_size/2 + 1) to acknowledge the write before considering the write successful.

In other words in a cluster of 3 nodes the quorum is 2 nodes. Before the Master can send back the acknowledge to the client it needs to wait the confirmation of write from at least 1 Slave node. For that reason it is possible in theory that a client can read from the other node that is not updated yet with the latest write. This situation is defined as “Dirty Read”.

If you must ensure that a client will always read the latest version of your data then you can:

• If you use the .net client api: use the connection setting “PerformOnMasterOnly”
• If your client doesn’t provides this method use the connection string setting “require-master=true”

In conclusion the possibility to get a Dirty Read depends on connection settings and if it can be read from any or read only from master.

Hope this helps