A 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 phoneb

A 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.