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An Informatica domain is a collection of nodes and services. A node is the logical representation of a machine in a domain. Services include the Service Manager that manages all domain operations and a set of application services that represent server-based functionality. The domain and some services require databases to write metadata and run-time results.
The following image shows a high-level architecture of a domain on multiple nodes: