Content-based, compression-enhancing routing in distributed, differential electronic-data storage systems

A routing component of a distributed, differential electronic-data storage system that routes a data object, comprising a sequence of data units, to a particular component data-storage system, or particular group component data-storage systems, of the distributed, differential electronic-data storage system by:

• selecting one or more subsequences of data units from the data object;
• computing one or more characteristic values from the selected subsequences;
• computing one or more indexes from the one or more characteristic values;
• and
• directing the data object to the particular component of the data-storage system, or to the particular group of component data-storage systems, identified by the one or more computed indexes.