A distributed environment describes the separation of indexing and searching logic
In a non-distributed environment, you would have installed all the logic on a single machine, which does the indexing of data and also searches the data.In a clustered environment, you could then combine multiple indexers to an indexer cluster for high-availabily/data loss prevention.
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