Overview ​

The Frontend executes requests from clients, and performs some tasks in the cloud , like tenant management, authorization validation, flow control, etc.

The Frontend can expose multiple endpoints for reading and writing data in various protocols. You can refer to Clients for more details.

The following picture shows a typical deployment of GreptimeDB in the cloud. The Frontend instances form a cluster to serve the requests from clients:

Details ​

• Table Sharding
• Distributed Querying