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Wing Shum
Wing Shum

Reputation: 492

Does Replica Set in Shard Cluster only stores a "Sharded Copy" or "All Sharded" Copies?

I understand the idea of Replica Set and am able to pull Replica Set Setup by using 3 server, the logic is as below, the reference are from this link https://severalnines.com/database-blog/turning-mongodb-replica-set-sharded-cluster :

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So I came to have confusion when I am trying to understand how does Sharded Cluster works in Replica Logic, the reference I was able to find is as below:

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There are a few concerns:

  1. Does Shard 1's Primary only hold 33% of datas?
  2. Does Shard 1's Secondary (Replica) hold the data from Shard 2's Primary and Shard 3's Primary?
  3. I can see "mongos" knows the Shard 1, Shard 2 and Shard 3 location, then what is the use of mongod config?
  4. Is the logic of server placement as below?:

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 278

Answers (1)

Wernfried Domscheit
Wernfried Domscheit

Reputation: 59523

  1. Does Shard 1's Primary only hold 33% of datas?

Yes, it does - provided your database and collection have "sharding enabled".

  1. Does Shard 1's Secondary (Replica) hold the data from Shard 2's Primary and Shard 3's Primary?

No, they don't. Shard 1's Secondaries hold a copy of Shard 1's Primary data.

  1. I can see "mongos" knows the Shard 1, Shard 2 and Shard 3 location, then what is the use of mongod config?

The config replica set stores all kind of meta data, e.g. user accounts and privileges and - very important - it stores which ranges of data are stored in which shard. Otherwise, when you insert or read any data, you would not know to which shard they belong to.

Upvotes: 1

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