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Horizontal Scaling Vs Vertical Scaling
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Horizontal_Scaling_And_Vertical_Scaling.txt
+=========================================+================================+======================================+
| Criteria | Horizontal Scaling | Vertical Scaling |
+=========================================+================================+======================================+
| Definition | adding more machines | increasing the capacity of a machine |
+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Other Name | scale out or scale in | scale up or scale down |
+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Availability | The system is highly available | single point of failure |
+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Traffic and Service Management | load balancer required | No additional effort required |
+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Privacy, Security, and Data Handling | better | - |
+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Consistency and Transactional Behaviour | - | system is consistent |
+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Hardware Limit | no limit | No additional effort required |
+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
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