What is the purpose of Realm?

What does basic realm mean?

The 'Basic' Authentication Scheme. The Basic authentication scheme is based on the model that the client needs to authenticate itself with a user-id and a password for each protection space ("realm"). The realm value is a free-form string that can only be compared for equality with other realms on that server.

What does a realm consist of?

A realm /ˈrɛlm/ is a community or territory over which a sovereign rules. The term is commonly used to describe a monarchical or dynastic state. A realm may also be a subdivision within an empire, if it has its own monarch, e.g. the German Empire.

What is realm service?

The realm service offers the following capabilities: Stores data grid definitions. Communicates with the administrative tools to store and retrieve data grid definitions. Communicates with all the processes running in the data grid and updates the internal configuration if anything changes.

What is a realm in Internet?

A realm is an internet domain whose Fully-Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) typically all share a domain designation. For example, example.com could be a Realm name, and the addressable hosts in the Realm would have names like host1.example.com, host2.subdomain1.example.com, and so on.