On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 08:17, Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> wrote: > > If we went ahead and implemented this I think the UUID becomes superfluous > from the replicator's perspective. You wouldn't want to restrict this Merkle > tree check to UUID-matched DBs, as it would be useful for reducing entropy in > a sharded database cluster that stores multiple copies of each document in > different database shards. In fact, IIRC that was a Dynamo feature in the > original Amazon paper.
I mostly follow and I think I agree. Can you clarify "as it would be useful for reducing entropy..."? Randall
