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I like mimetics. I'm not a distributed database expert. But I'm wondering: is this analogous to sharding? Not really, I guess. Eventual consistency? Not real

I like mimetics. I'm not a distributed database expert. But I'm wondering: is this analogous to sharding? Not really, I guess. Eventual consistency? Not really, I guess. Is it: sharding + replication + "ordering" => Eventual consistency? What do we have in tech that behaves like this?

JakeKalstad 7y ago
The way p2p torrents work to some degree? One node can draw on surrounding nodes to retrieve smaller portions of the full data.