From 8cf015c34f3e42f420c81d7619220f9f5f977cab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aliaksandr Valialkin Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 20:37:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] README.md: mention that VictoriaMetrics is built on `shared nothing` architecture --- README.md | 5 ++++- docs/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.md | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9d821662d..616219e60 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Victoria Metrics -# Cluster version of VictoriaMetrics +# Cluster version VictoriaMetrics is fast, cost-effective and scalable time series database. It can be used as a long-term remote storage for Prometheus. @@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ VictoriaMetrics cluster consists of the following services: - `vmselect` - performs incoming queries using the data from `vmstorage` Each service may scale independently and may run on the most suitable hardware. +`vmstorage` nodes don't know about each other, don't communicate with each other and don't share any data. +This is [shared nothing architecture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared-nothing_architecture). +It increases cluster availability, simplifies cluster maintenance and cluster scaling. diff --git a/docs/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.md b/docs/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.md index 74c3d5f25..cc1ddb55f 100644 --- a/docs/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.md +++ b/docs/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.md @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ VictoriaMetrics cluster consists of the following services: - `vmselect` - performs incoming queries using the data from `vmstorage` Each service may scale independently and may run on the most suitable hardware. +`vmstorage` nodes don't know about each other, don't communicate with each other and don't share any data. +This is [shared nothing architecture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared-nothing_architecture). +It increases cluster availability, simplifies cluster maintenance and cluster scaling.