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Continuent's Tungsten Data Replication Engine Now Available as Open Source
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- Published on Thursday, 14 April 2011 08:00
Continuent, Inc., a provider of replication and clustering solutions for open source databases, announced the release of version 2.0 of its data replication engine, Tungsten Replicator.
For those unaware, a data replication engine replicates multiple tables in a source database to multiple destination databases simultaneously by utilizing customizable SQL statements. These are generally compliant with OLEDB/ODBC databases.
The Tungsten Replicator is a high performance, open source, data replication engine for MySQL and PostgreSQL. It offers global transaction IDs to support failover; flexible transaction filtering; extensible transaction metadata, and more.
Apart from being a high performance engine, it also features sharding, multiple replication services per process, and simple, well-documented operation.
Released under a GPL V2 license, the new Tungsten Replicator 2.0 facilitates technically-focused users to solve problems such as promoting masters easily from pools of slaves, replicating data between different database versions, replicating efficiently across sites, building complex topologies, and parallelizing data flow between servers.
Available for a free download at Tungsten-Replicator, the Tungsten Replicator 2.0 can efficiently run in both cloud as well as locally hosted environments. It is also the base for Tungsten Enterprise, a commercial database clustering product improving transaction throughput. This product also keeps data highly available to applications.
Being completely compatible with MySQL Replication, the new Tungsten Replicator 2.0 has been provided with additional features such as parallel replication, multi-master replication and heterogenous replication.
Some of the benefits provided by the new Tungsten Replicator include: parallelizing the data flow between master and slave so that no slave is left behind; geographic distribution of data and apps to create multi-site deployments using multi-master replication; and capability of replication from MySQL to Oracle enterprise apps.
According to Continuent, the Tungsten Replicator is the foundation for Continuent Tungsten Enterprise, which is a complete replication and data management solution for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
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