Within the datastore, there are 3 copies of each piece of data. When a get() req...

		jsrfded on April 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Anatomy Of Search Technology: Blekko’s NoSQL D... Within the datastore, there are 3 copies of each piece of data. When a get() request is made, it goes out to the "closest" copy; if an answer isn't heard from by some threshold, a 2nd request is made to one of the other replicas. Whoever gets the data back first wins.