Reliability is the measure of its ability to manage data and ensure no corruption, even in the event of system or data-store failures. The Distra platform guarantees consistency of all managed data and ensures consistency and reliability even in the event of multiple database instance failures.
By providing this level of management and close integration with a group of database instances, the Reliable Database Service offers advantages not found in their entirety in other products, including:
- Very-high performance synchronous replication across multiple DB instances
- Data partition management
- Database instance failure detection and instance quarantining
- Database instance recovery and synchronisation
Distra achieves this without relying on 3rd party or database vendor tools. Through a pure SQL interface MCASÂ is compatible with most JDBC databases, such as Oracle™ and PostgreSQL™, providing freedom of choice and easy integration into an existing data eco-system.
Note: some vendors provide replicated solutions that operate solely within memory. Whilst these solutions provide high-availability under positive conditions, the implications of data consistency arising from multiple and cascaded failures such as data centre outages must be taken into consideration. Distra MCAS provides the benefits of an in-memory solution with the reliability and consistency of multiple disk persisted replicas.