At deepdyve, we replicate everything 3x but downgrade some intermediate data to 2x. For very small tests 1x is fine, but I really appreciate the speed boost of 3x replication.
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can tell you I replicate 1x for testing and debugging, and replicate > 3x in production as a rule. This was the norm at Google FWIW; some key > data was distributed more but 3x was the default. >