What happens if a Tablet server of BigTable dies?
Let’s say tablet A stores in a tablet server, and that server dies.
Assume that tablet A stores rows 1~1000, then rows 1~1000 are not accessible before tablet A is taken over by another tablet server right? Since are no replicas for tablets or tablet servers, could we still consider that BigTable is HA?
Moreover, what’s the downtime for recovering a tablet from a dead tablet server?
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