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Architecture

Basic Introduction to YugabyteDB Components

Basic Introduction to YugabyteDB Components

In this short blog post we are going to give you a quick overview of the components that make up a YugabyteDB universe.

Universe

YugabyteDB is composed of nodes. We collectively refer to this collection of all nodes as a universe. These nodes can be physical machines, virtual machines or containers (e.g. Kubernetes).

Clusters

A YugabyteDB universe is made up of one or more clusters.

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