After the SDK is installed and the routing reference data is configured, the reference data must be distributed around the cluster. If you do not wish to use HDFS to do this, you can manually distribute the data instead.
Note: While it is recommended you use HDFS for the configuration directories and preference
files, it is not a requirement. You may use local file system paths but you will have to
make sure the file or directory is present and current on every node in the cluster. If you
do this then you do not need to set
pb.download.location
.