gianm commented on a change in pull request #6916: Add master/data/query server concepts to docs/packaging URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-druid/pull/6916#discussion_r251407086
########## File path: docs/content/design/index.md ########## @@ -93,47 +93,100 @@ Druid has a multi-process, distributed architecture that is designed to be cloud Druid process type can be configured and scaled independently, giving you maximum flexibility over your cluster. This design also provides enhanced fault tolerance: an outage of one component will not immediately affect other components. -Druid's process types are: +## Server Types -* [**Historical**](../design/historical.html) processes are the workhorses that handle storage and querying on "historical" data +A Druid cluster is organized into 3 server types: + +### Master server + +A master server manages data ingestion and storage: it is responsible for starting new ingestion jobs and coordinating availability of data on the "Data servers" described below. + +Within a master server, functionality is split between two processes, the coordinator and overlord. Review comment: Capitalize Coordinator and Overlord. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@druid.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commits-h...@druid.apache.org
