remote directory/partition

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Oct 23, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> Indeed. It is worth remembering that the diameter of a circle is a  
> full
> 1.5708 (PI/2) times shorter than half its circumference, so if you  
> can get
> the communication *through* the earth, you can make the latency 37%  
> lower
> than with traditional wires-over-the-surface communication technology.


If you are going that far, you can just install an oracle database,  
and have it serve you the data before you ask for it. Make sure not to  
get the Cassandra version, the data is unreliable.

:-)

Geoff.



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