About the PXF Deployment Topology

The default PXF deployment topology is co-located; you install PXF on each SynxDB host, and the PXF Service starts and runs on each SynxDB segment host.

You manage the PXF services deployed in a co-located topology using the pxf cluster commands.

Alternate Deployment Topology

Running the PXF Service on non-SynxDB hosts is an alternate deployment topology. If you choose this topology, you must install PXF on both the non-SynxDB hosts and on all SynxDB hosts.

In the alternate deployment topology, you manage the PXF services individually using the pxf command on each host; you can not use the pxf cluster commands to collectively manage the PXF services in this topology.

If you choose the alternate deployment topology, you must explicitly configure each SynxDB host to identify the host and listen address on which the PXF Service is running. These procedures are described in Configuring the Host and Configuring the Listen Address.