Third-Party Load Balancers
You can perform load balancing across your Vertica database cluster using third-party load balancers.
Third-party load balancers exist as software applications or hardware appliances. They manage the inbound and outboard data traffic and network connections throughout the cluster. Their goal is to distribute the workload evenly among all the nodes in the cluster.
Many third-party load balancers are available.
Before choosing a load balancer for your Vertica database cluster, consider these configuration characteristics:
- Size of the cluster
- Potential future growth of your cluster
- Security
- Performance