What is the difference from a single storage and a cluster storage?
Clustering is mainly a software and network configuration issue in the Clusterpoint architecture. There is no difference in physical data format between a single storage and a cluster storage – all physical file formats are the same in Clusterpoint DBMS. Any storage of the same name can be configured to run in the stripe or mirror configuration with other same name storages across the cluster of multiple servers in Clusterpoint DBMS architecture. This design concept also simplifies many database administration tasks. For example, a system administration, such as backup/restore operations for a Clusterpoint database, requires only a basic file and directory copying knowledge. If you run many different Clusterpoint storages per single hardware server, each storage will be run as a set of completely independent Clusterpoint Server processes, protected in its own memory space, and fully protected from other server software instances.
