Cluster
- A group of inter connected racks is called cluster.
- A rack can be collection of 30 to 40 nodes.
Types of cluster
- Single node cluster or Pseudo-distributed cluster
- Multi node cluster or fully distributed cluster
Short definition
- As the word says,
- single
node cluster means only one node
- multi-node cluster means more than one node
Single
Node cluster
- By default, Hadoop is configured to run on standalone mode, as a single Java process.
- All services(daemons) run in a single JVM instance.
Multi-Node cluster
- All services(daemons) run on different JVM instances on different hosts/machines.
- It follows a master-slave architecture.
- Master - Slave architecture means one machine will act as master node which runs on separate machine and other machines will act as slave node which runs on different machines.
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-Nireekshan