Benefits and Drawbacks
Explore the benefits and drawbacks of shared-nothing architectures in distributed systems. Understand how they enhance scalability and availability while addressing fault tolerance. Learn the suitability for partitioning problems and concurrency control methods, as well as the trade-offs involving flexibility and transactional capabilities in distributed applications.
Benefits
The shared-nothing architecture provides many benefits from a performance and fault-tolerance perspective. It provides scalability and availability guarantees.
Scalability
All layers of the applications can be incrementally scaled out or in depending on the load.
Note: Scalability is easier and quicker to achieve in the stateless components since it requires less data transfer.
Availability
The system is resilient to single-node and multi-node failures.
More specifically, these two different forms of failure impact the stateless parts of the system in a similar way. The size of the impact is just different. For example, the remaining nodes ...