The image shows a comparison table with four rows, contrasting "Replicated Databases" and "Distributed Databases" across several features:

• Primary Function:

  • Replicated Databases: Workload routing, load balancing, service failover
  • Distributed Databases: Shard routing, data locality, query optimization

• Core Components:

  • Replicated Databases: Global Service Managers, GDS Catalog
  • Distributed Databases: Shard Director, Shard Catalog

• Focus:

  • Replicated Databases: High availability, disaster recovery, read scaling
  • Distributed Databases: Global scalability, performance, data distribution

• Key Concepts:

  • Replicated Databases: Database services, replication roles
  • Distributed Databases: Data partitioning, parallel query, sharding strategies