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- From: oytor@teleserve.no (Oystein Torbjornsen)
- Subject: Re: Hot Standby DBMS's
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.141443.19295@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: oytor@rand (Oystein Torbjornsen)
- Organization: Teleserve Transaction Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- References: <1992Sep7.165029.26587@uk03.bull.co.uk> <BuAHM6.Ds4@cup.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 14:14:43 GMT
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- In article <BuAHM6.Ds4@cup.hp.com>, dhepner@cup.hp.com (Dan Hepner) writes:
- |> From: dboyce@hemel.bull.co.uk (David Boyce)
- |> >Interfaces for obtaining journal data from an RM and passing it to an
- |> >standby RM would be needed, as would RM-independent methods of recovery
- |> >and catch-up. Not beyond the wit of man, I would have thought.
- |> >
- |> >Obviously the database vendors need to be convinced of the need to make
- |> >this interface available.
- |> Any ideas on how to convince them? In particular, it needs to be
- |> shown what can be done using this scheme which the DB vendors
- |> could not do themselves. Intuitively, one would say "but it's
- |> more open". In what way does this openness benefit anyone?
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- The main goal for hot standbys are high availability to data. Current hot
- standby solutions are able to mask environmental failures (eg. earthquake,
- flood, power), operator failures (the two systems are run by two different
- system operators), and soft/transient software errors (heisenbugs). By
- introducing an open standard the customer can use DBMS' from different vendors
- for primary and hot standby. If the software at the primary failes hard
- (bohrbug) the hot stanby can take over and most likely be able to run the
- transaction(s) that failed on the primary. The two DBMS' is likely to be
- implemented by different people using different languages and different
- mechnisms and therefore have independent failure modes. The effect is coarse
- granularity N-version programming.
-
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