DHTs

Distributed Hashtables(DHTs) are extremely powerful, and very important for building reliable, scalable distributed services. Most of them use a variant of consistent hashing or rendezvous hashing to map keys(tokens) to nodes. Consistent Hashing is the most popular design. This library implements everything you may need to build a DHT based on consistent hashing.

Many distributed systems and services rely on DHTs, including:

• Apache Cassandra
• Aerospike
• Riak
• CloudDS
• Azure Service Fiber
• GlusterFS

and many, many more.