Performance, Scalability, and Reliability
A SyncML Server will likely serve thousands or tens of thousands of Clients. SyncML compliance and the above functional characteristics are necessary but not sufficient attributes of a production SyncML Server. A Server should offer high performance, be scalable, and be reliable. This section discusses a number of means to design a SyncML Server to help achieve the above goals.
Exploiting SyncML Characteristics
In Chapter 4, we discussed certain characteristics of SyncML data synchronization that enable the building of scalable Servers. They are the following:
Batch operations
No constraints on ordering of operations
No transactional guarantees
SyncML allows operations on datastores to be batched in one ...
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