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One copy or many
Speed and availability, paid for in consistency
Replicas and caches put data closer to readers and survive failures, but every extra copy can lag behind the source of truth. The real question is how stale a read the product can tolerate.
One copyAlways consistentBottleneck, single point of failure
Many copiesFast, resilient readsReplication lag, conflicts
Source: Hacker News
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