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		evn on May 5, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Distributed systems primer Yeah, you need something like http://opensource.plurk.com/LightCloud/ to make it actually distributed. It does support replication though.

Maro on May 5, 2009 [–]

Yes, but its replication is similar to BDB's, a kind-of add-on/feature. It's not a full-blown replicated KV store like Google's Chubby with strong consistency, automatic failover, etc. Of course, not everybody needs that, I'm just saying...

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