i understand that a master/slave setup is redundant, in that data is mirrored to all slaves from a central master. how does this vary from a distributed architecture?
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i understand that a master/slave setup is redundant, in that data is mirrored to all slaves from a central master. how does this vary from a distributed architecture?
A master/slave relationship implies either a backup solution, or a failover solution. When the master becomes unavailable, the slave takes over, and functions as the new master until the master comes back up.
In a distributed architecture, the servers are basically equals. Any request can be served by any server, so long as the request is atomic.