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In this option, the ContainerRunner for the hot-standby container does not create a SamzaContainer object. It simply runs a JVM process with a RestoreStorageManager (an enhanced TaskStorageManager), that created the required SysConsumer objects and reads from the continuously to perform putAll on store objects.
Pros: Lightweight as compared to a. -- hot-standby containers have less idle overhead than active containers.
Cons:
No extensibility of this abstraction.
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