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Hi Team,When we say we have to use Consistent Hashing for data sharding, Is it l...
Pramod Kumar
Oct 6, 2021
Hi Team, When we say we have to use Consistent Hashing for data sharding, Is it like we have to use Cassandra or any no sql DB which supports consistent hashing.
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Design Gurus4 years ago
Not necessarily. Consistent hashing can be implemented and used over any database e.g., MySQL. NoSQL databases like Cassandra or DynamoDB have built-in support.
From a system design interview perspective, it is more important to understand how Consistent Hashing will s...
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Pramod Kumar4 years ago
ok thanks.
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Whip 3 years ago
In the diagram in section 7, why does the rate limiter sit between the webserver and databases? Shouldn't the API servers be connected to the databases instead of the rate limiter?