Magento – Why and how does Magento differentiate between setup, read, and write database resources

setup-script

Found this question in Certification Study Guide. Can anyone clarify please?

Best Answer

This is because Magento supports master/slave configurations for databases.
You can set a master database that will be used for writing (and setup maybe) and a slave database to read data from.
If you want to try it, here are some references explaining how to do it: