- can run on a laptop running Windows 95 with 32MB of RAM
- replication - trigger approach or log-sniffer approach? - one-way (push) replication -
bi-directional(synchronize) replication
- remote administration - pager or e-mail notification of errors on remote server - administration tools
canmanage a remote database - administration tools can send jobs to groups of servers at once - can
delegateadministrative tasks (partial access to administration tools and jobs)
- can run stored procedures on remote system
- distributed transactions using two-phase commit - with other servers running this database server software
- with other servers running database server software from other companies (e.g. XA support)
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org