In aviation, load balancing (aviation) refers to mass/load balancing within an aircraft. See also loadmaster, weight distribution.
In electrical power generation, load balancing (electrical power) refers to the use of various energy storage techniques used by electrical power generation plants to store excess electrical power during low demand periods for release as demand rises.
In computing, load balancing is a technique (usually performanced by load balancers) to spread work between many computers, processes, computers, disks or other resources in order to get optimal resource utilization and decrease computing time. ... A loadmaster is an aircrew member trained to manipulate the aircrafts loading system, to load and unload cargo and passengers, to monitor the cargo while in flight and to ensure the weight and balance of the aircraft will remain within the limits allowed by the manufacturer of the aircraft... Weight distribution refers to the apportioning of weight within a vehicle, but is used most often to refer to cars, airplanes, and watercraft. ...
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Layer-4 loadbalancing is to distribute requests to the servers at transport layer, such as TCP, UDP and SCTP transport protocol.
Layer-7 loadbalancing, also known as application-level loadbalancing, is to parse requests in application layer and distribute requests to servers based on different types of request contents, so that it can provide quality of service requirements for different types of contents and improve overall cluster performance.
Database loadbalancing is to balance database access requests among cluster of database servers, in order to achieve database scalability and high availability.
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