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How is rebalancing of DHTs handled in case of failure or addition of new node?

That's the whole purpose of consistent hashing. When you add a new node, you compute its hash key, find the two nearest neighbors on the hash ring and link the node in between them. When the hash func …
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How is DHT different than regular hash tables in context to data/node lookup?

Your question in the first sentence is a bit vague and open-ended. I'm guessing you want to know about routing and mutual node knowledge in the context of lookup. Each node shouldn't have to know abo …
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