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For a great Christmas read forget The Night Before Christmas, a heart warming poem written by Clement Moore for his children, that created the modern idea of Santa Clause we all know and anticipate each Christmas eve. Instead, curl up with a some potent eggnog, nog being any drink made
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Terrastore is a new-born document store which provides advanced scalability and elasticity features without sacrificing consistency. Here are a few highlights: * Ubiquitous: based on the universally supported HTTP protocol. * Distributed: nodes can run and live everywhere on your network. * Elastic: you can add and remove nodes dynamically to/from your
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To scale in the large you have to partition. Data has to be spread around, replicated, and kept consistent (keeping replicas sufficiently similar to one another despite operations being submitted independently at different sites). The result is a highly available, well performing, and scalable system. Partitioning is required, but it&