May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
230 pages
7h 27m
English
This section describes master slave and DR configurations.
Master-slave configuration: Replication requires multiple copies of data to be dispersed across different databases. In such a setup, the read-only operations will be faster and scalable as it is possible to read from the nearest database instance and it can answer a number of read-only queries in parallel.
DR configuration: This involves copying the data from the primary instance to all its backup and standby instances so that it is easy to switch in case of failover. Replication is a practice followed by storage systems, database servers, and in cases of application configurations.
The two main types of replication configuration are:
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