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It's not a phone book. It's a distributed key/value store.
by jedisct1 8y ago
It's not a phone book. It's a distributed key/value store.
- ASalazarMX 8y agoA distributed IP book then?
- Dylan16807 8y agoPhone books also have non-phone information on some entries, but their primary purpose is to get phone numbers. The analogy is fine.
- gerdesj 8y agoI can go to nearly any house and pick up a phone book and get the equivalent of A records (name to address).
- ianleeclark 8y agoA phone book is a great analogy? If you want someone in Berlin, you'd look in a Berlin phonebook; if you want someone in Austin, you'd look in an Austin phonebook. Maybe the underlying storage mechanism doesn't rely on consistent hashing or buckets, but phone books are inherently distributed key/value stores.