Native Connection Load Balancing

The Vertica server and client libraries have native connection load balancing built in. This feature distributes client connection CPU and memory overhead across all nodes in the database cluster. Native connection load balancing can prevent overburdening some nodes with many client connections, while other nodes have few client connections.

You must enable native connection load balancing on both the Vertica server and the client.

For more information about native connection load balancing, see the following topics in the Administrator's Guide:

To learn how to enable native connection load balancing with your specific client software, see the following topics in Connecting to Vertica: