Other replication solutions and Data Guard

There are many options to replicate an Oracle database data to a remote system. In the scope of disaster recovery, Oracle Data Guard and storage-based replication solutions such as EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), HP Continuous Access, Hitachi Universal Replicator and TrueCopy, IBM Global Mirror, and Metro Mirror are the main players in the market. When talking about Oracle database replication we also have to mention Oracle's well-known replication technologies GoldenGate and Streams. However, these products were not developed for disaster recovery fundamentally. Their primary aim is replication for ETL and data warehouse.

There are also some third-party tools capable of replicating Oracle database ...

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