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Shared-Disk Architecture

A distributed design in which all compute nodes access a common storage layer.

Definition

Shared-disk simplifies data management because every node sees the same data, but traditionally it suffered from storage contention. Cloud object storage revived the model as separated storage and compute.

Exam tip

Snowflake's central storage is the shared-disk half of its hybrid architecture.

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