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- From: edwards@world.std.com (Jonathan Edwards)
- Subject: Hot Standby
- Message-ID: <Bt4yqE.H0q@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:20:36 GMT
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- In the transaction-processing world, there is the concept of a 'hot standby'
- system, which is a geographically separated system containing a copy of the
- database, and capable of coming online very quickly. The replicated data must
- be close to current, and guaranteeing complete synchronization is required
- by some applications. A further feature is the ability to 'catchup'
- incrementally to missed changes after an outage, without a complete database
- copy. Our database (homebrew non-relational) does this.
- Are there any other databases that can do this?
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- I know that Tandem has some capability, but it is not synchronous (it can
- fall behind, probably because performance would be unacceptable otherwise).
- I don't think it can incrementally catch up.
- Vendors often suggest doing 'remote mirroring' of the database disks, which
- requires extremely high bandwidth (like FDDI) which is very expensive, and
- doesn't do catchup.
- I would think that all the efforts building distributed databases should have
- yielded some kind of capabilities along these lines. Can anyone fill me in?
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- Jonathan Edwards edwards@intranet.com
- IntraNet, Inc. 617-527-7020
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