The "silly" label is not productive. When we have R+W>N, and assuming N is 3, there is either a hit on read and write (W=R=2) or heavy hit on write (W=3, R=1)

The "silly" label is not productive. When we have R+W>N, and assuming N is 3, there is either a hit on read and write (W=R=2) or heavy hit on write (W=3, R=1) or heavy hit on read with a chance of temporary outages (W=1, R=3). In HBase you write to exactly one server and read from exactly one server, which also provides for cheap atomic operations.