November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
276 pages
7h 6m
English
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Partition layer
The Partition layer is responsible for partitioning all the data objects in the system. Not only that, it is also responsible for assigning the partitions to partition servers, plus load balancing the partitions across partition servers to meet the traffic needs of the storage services, considering that a single partition server would handle multiple partitions.