Real Application Clusters

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Real Application Clusters is an Oracle Database technology that enables multiple servers to run a single database instance concurrently for high availability and scalable performance.

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instanceOf Oracle Database technology
database clustering technology
high availability solution
scalability solution
alsoKnownAs Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
surface form: Oracle RAC

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
surface form: Oracle Real Application Clusters
compatibleWith Oracle Data Guard
componentOf Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture
configurationElement RAC database instance
RAC node
RAC service
designedFor 24x7 database availability
mission-critical applications
developedBy Oracle Corporation
enables multiple servers to access a single database
running a single database across multiple nodes
goal provide continuous database service during node failures
hasDocumentation Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
surface form: Oracle Database Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide
improves database uptime
horizontal scalability
introducedInVersion Oracle Database
surface form: Oracle9i Database
marketedAs Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
surface form: Oracle RAC
predecessor Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
surface form: Oracle Parallel Server
provides fault tolerance
high availability
scalable performance
reduces planned downtime
unplanned downtime impact
requires cluster interconnect network
shared storage
runsOn Oracle Grid Infrastructure
clustered servers
supports active-active clustering
load balancing across nodes
online failover
supportsFeature instance affinity for services
online node addition and removal
rolling patching
service-based workload management
transparent application failover
supportsProduct Oracle Database
supportsVersion multiple Oracle Database releases
usedFor database consolidation
scaling OLTP workloads
scaling mixed database workloads
uses Oracle Automatic Storage Management
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
surface form: Oracle Clusterware

cluster interconnect for cache fusion
shared disk architecture

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Oracle Database supportsFeature Real Application Clusters