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DOCS-733 - Added clarity to subscriber-only node purpose.
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title: Subscriber-only nodes and groups
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Subscriber-only nodes provide a means to scale up the handling of read-only
requests in PGD.

## Subscriber-only nodes

As the name suggests, a subscriber-only node subscribes only to replication
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all directions. A large number of subscriber-only nodes receive only changes
but never send any changes to any other node in the cluster. This topology
avoids connection explosion due to a large number of nodes yet provides an
extremely large number of `leaf` nodes that you can use to consume the data.
extremely large number of `leaf` nodes that you can use to service a large
number read-only requests without adding load to the replicating cluster.


## Subscriber-only groups

To make use of subscriber-only nodes, first create a PGD group of type
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