Re: Does Sybase have something like Oracle's RAC for hot failover?





"DA Morgan" <damorgan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Rob Verschoor wrote:
> > Sybase currently has active-active failover with its HA solution for
ASE,
> > which does pretty much what you describe/
> > ASE's 'Shared disk clusters' version is one (big) step further and
that's in
> > the works -- expected next year.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Rob
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Rob Verschoor
>
> RAC is not a Sybase like HA failover and there is no relationship
> between the Sybase capability and that of Oracle's RAC. Sybase HA
> failover is more equivalent to Oracle's DataGuard failover.
>
> With the Sybase solution you do not have shared-everything. With
> Sybase you do not have load balancing. With Sybase there is a
> primary node and the balance are secondary. With Oracle that concept
> does not exist. All nodes stand on a equal footing.
>
> With Sybase, after failover, all existing client connections are lost.
> With Oracle all existing client connections are maintained. The end-user
> experience is seemless with a DML statement restarted on another live
> node.
>
> HTH
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> http://www.psoug.org
> damorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (replace x with u to respond)


As I said, ASE's 'Shared disk clusters' are in the works. This is a 'shared
everything' architecture, much like Oracle's RAC.

Rob V.


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