"If your client writes to G1, then you pretty much have to wait until the write has propagated to the entire network to acknowledge the write"
PAXOS, for example, just needs it to be written to a majority of nodes.
If you write it to node "key % n", where n is the number of nodes, then only that single node needs to be up & available to all writers / readers.
"If your client writes to G1, then you pretty much have to wait until the write has propagated to the entire network to acknowledge the write"
PAXOS, for example, just needs it to be written to a majority of nodes.
If you write it to node "key % n", where n is the number of nodes, then only that single node needs to be up & available to all writers / readers.