Shared Nothing vs. Shared Disk Architectures: An Independent View

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Ben Stopford. "Shared Nothing vs. Shared Disk Architectures: An Independent View." benstopford.com, November 2009. Archived at perma.cc/7BXH-EDUR

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Shared Nothing v.s. Shared Disk Architectures: An Independent View | Ben Stopford

The Shared Nothing Architecture is a relatively old pattern that has had a resurgence of late in data storage technologies, particularly in the NoSQL, Data Warehousing and Big Data spaces. As architectures go it has some pretty interesting performance tradeoffs when compared to the more common approach of simply sharing a disk array (known as Shared Disk). This article compares and contrasts thes…

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