A shared nothing architecture is a distributed system Database architecture without a single point of failure. The term shared nothing is by imitation of other terms such as shared disk , shared network and so on.

A typical shared nothing system would have duplicated disks, processors, power supply, and networks. To make the system truly resilient, it should also have these systems split between different physical sites, and have multiple sources of electricity and network connections to the outside world through physically diverse paths.

Systems with shared nothing architecture: