[gime_tree_fiddy]

> because it doesn't need to, Shared Nothing systems look similar, and the authors know exactly who the readers of this paper are ^_^)

I didn't understand this. Who is the author referring to, and what is he implying?

[c4pt0r]

I think a lot of shared-nothing systems are similar from high level, connection handling / storage node (with small shards) / Metadata (routing)