All modern enterprise IT organizations are concerned with data replication of mission-critical systems and applications across sites, and data centers.
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The GigaSpaces Multi-Site Data Replication synchronizes data across your
different sites in a consistent, failure-proof, scalable way.
Employing the GigaSpaces in-memory data grid ensures superb performance. While no disk access is involved, the data is highly available and there is no risk of data loss. The system enables easy scaling by adding partitions and distributing its gateway across several hosts.
The Challenges of Data Replication Across Sites
There are many challenges to achieving real-time data replication, and enterprises have additional demanding requirements that must be a part of any solution, including reliability, security, and filtering. GigaSpaces data-replication meets these challenges:
Business Challenge |
GigaSpaces Feature That Meets Challenge |
Support for extreme performance and data volumes without special HW or SW |
Scalable replication: No physical I/O – The Gateway replicates data stored in-memory asynchronously. No database is required to replicate data over the WAN. data in the data grid. Parallel replication: Any Stream replication can have its own delegate and sink on separate JVMs/hosts. |
Maintaining data integrity across all sites |
Customizable conflict resolution mechanism prevents data inconsistency. |
Adding new sites with zero downtime and without manual remote access |
Dynamic configuration for adding replication channels on the fly. Remote bootstrapping of each site from another site. |
Business continuity |
High availability and self-healing: The data grid backing the WAN gateway is highly available with hot replication. The self-healing mechanism compensates for any lost data grid node or WAN gateway failure by automatically restarting on an available machine. |
Data consistency |
Due to unique architecture with a completely stateless WAN Gateway, no data loss will ever occur due to gateway failure. Transactions at the local site are replicated atomically to the remote sites. Data replication order ensures durability. |
Support for any business process |
Data filtering: Custom plug-in allows users to filter/modify data before it is replicated and after it has been replicated at each source/target node Support for any replication topology, including routing replication via delegate site(s). |
Enables data integration across apps |
Interoperability: The Data Grid enables application access to data through various APIs, and using Java, C++ or .NET No special configuration is required. |
Security |
Support for encrypted replication using SSL |