Clustering RethinkDB
Clustering in RethinkDB's context refers to the ability of several server or instances to support a single database. An instance can be a database process on the same machine as other RethinkDB instances, or it can be a completely different and separate server.
Clustering offers three major advantages especially in databases with large datasets:
- Data scalability
- Fault tolerance
- Load balancing
As we have seen in the previous sections, clustering solves the increasing data volume problem as it allows us to store large quantities of data in multiple instances. This is because a single machine has limited capacity.
Clustering also provides us with additional fault tolerance; that is, in the event that a software component fails, a backup ...
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