This document provides an overview of Amazon's Dynamo database and Kai, an open source implementation of Dynamo. It describes Dynamo's motivation as providing scalable, fault-tolerant storage needed by Amazon's large-scale systems. Key features of Dynamo discussed include its use as a distributed key-value store, high availability even during failures, and eventual consistency. The document also o
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