Cluster differs from Cloud and Grid in that a cluster is a group of computers connected by a local area network (LAN), whereas cloud and grid are more wide scale and can be geographically distributed. Another way to put it is to say that a cluster is tightly coupled, whereas a Grid or a cloud … Read more
Disclosure: I’m a lead engineer on Kubernetes I think that Mesos and Kubernetes are largely aimed at solving similar problems of running clustered applications, they have different histories and different approaches to solving the problem. Mesos focuses its energy on very generic scheduling, and plugging in multiple different schedulers. This means that it enables systems … Read more
Database clustering is a bit of an ambiguous term, some vendors consider a cluster having two or more servers share the same storage, some others call a cluster a set of replicated servers. Replication defines the method by which a set of servers remain synchronized without having to share the storage being able to be … Read more