Chapter 6: Partitioning

So far, in the systems we have discussed, we have assumed that every machine stores all data. In the earlier chapter on replication, when the primary node receives a write request from a client, it saves the entire dataset both locally and on other replica nodes. This storage approach has the following problems: &#xA; &#xA; Scalability : If data replication is done in a primary-backup manner, all…