“I would most certainly include updates to my bank account as applications for which eventual consistency is a good design choice. In fact, bankers have understood and used eventual consistency for far longer than there have been computers in the modern sense” –Justin Sheehy.

“On the subject of new data models and eventual consistency I did interview Justin Sheehy Chief Technology Officer, Basho Technologies…”

http://www.odbms.org/blog/2012/08/on-eventual-consistency-an-interview-with-justin-sheehy/