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		Mordor on Sept 1, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Now that people are considering NOSQL will more pe... Hmm, not so sure about that - power outages can affect several city blocks and then you're introducing latency?

kragen on Sept 1, 2011 [–]

Put your memory on separate continents. Yes, it introduces latency, even more latency than a disk seek, but not that much.

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