I would classify it as a clustered database system (Oracle 10g that is). Clustered meaning more than one node in the cluster.
ALy. On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Michael Meskes wrote: >> Postgres-R, pgcluster, Slony-II. Some more advanced, some less. But >> certainly nothing I would send into the ring against Oracle-Grid. > >Assuming that you mean Oracle Real Application Cluster (the Grid is more, >right?) I wonder if this technology technically still counts as replication. >AFAIK they do not replicate data but share a common data pool among different >servers. You still have communication overhead but you write a tuple only >once for all servers involved. Takes away a lot of overhead on a system >that's heavily written too. > >Michael > -- Aly S.P Dharshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] "A good speech is like a good dress that's short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq