This is a common approach popularized in the Amazon Dynamo paper [0]. Riak[1] is a nosql datastore that derives technical and philosophical underpinnings from t

This is a common approach popularized in the Amazon Dynamo paper [0]. Riak[1] is a nosql datastore that derives technical and philosophical underpinnings from that paper and is written in erlang. [0] http://s3.amazonaws.com/AllThingsDistributed/sosp/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf http://s3.amazonaws.com/AllThingsDistributed/sosp/amazon-dyn... [1] http://basho.com/ http://basho.com/