Oracle9i Real Application Clusters Concepts Release 1 (9.0.1) Part Number A89867-02 |
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This manual prepares you to successfully implement clustered databases by presenting Real Application Clusters concepts. Information in this manual applies to Real Application Clusters as it runs on all operating systems. Real Application Clusters is a new, breakthrough architecture with scalability and high availability features that exceed the capabilities of previous Oracle cluster-enabled software releases.
You should read this manual before reading Oracle9i Real Application Clusters Installation and Configuration, Oracle9i Real Application Clusters Administration, and Oracle9i Real Application Clusters Deployment and Performance. For general information about Oracle and administering the single instance Oracle Server, refer to Oracle9i Database Concepts and Oracle9i Database Administrator's Guide.
This preface contains these topics:
Real Application Clusters Concepts is intended for database administrators and application developers who work with Real Application Clusters.
This book presents Real Application Clusters concepts in five parts. It begins by describing cluster database processing fundamentals for Real Application Clusters. The book then covers resource processing among instances. Next, it explains the fundamentals of how Real Application Clusters is implemented. Next, it describes High Availability and the Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard feature. It ends with reference material that includes an appendix describing the implementation restrictions on Real Application Clusters, an appendix on lock setting concepts, and a glossary of terms.
This chapter describes prerequisite knowledge, discusses terminology, and introduces cluster database processing and database technologies that offer advantages for online transaction processing and decision support applications.
This chapter describes the architectural components that Oracle provides for cluster database processing.
This chapter describes the hardware components and high-level architectural models that typify cluster environments.
This chapter describes inter-instance coordination activities involved in a cluster and local resources employed by the Real Application Clusters software.
This chapter provides a detailed discussion of Cache Fusion and the inter-instance coordination activities handled by the Global Cache Service (GCS).
This chapter provides details on and the inter-instance coordination activities handled by the Global Enqueue Service (GES).
This chapter describes the implementation components for Real Application Clusters applications.
This chapter describes the storage considerations for Real Application Clusters applications.
This chapter describes the scalability features of Real Application Clusters.
This chapter describes the concepts and some best practices methodologies for how to use Real Application Clusters to implement high availability.
This chapter describes the architecture of Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard.
This chapter describes the operation of Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard.
This appendix lists restrictions of Real Application Clusters software.
This appendix describes how to use optional lock setting to override the concurrency control provided by Cache Fusion.
A glossary of Real Application Clusters and Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard terms.
After reading this manual, read Oracle9i Real Application Clusters Installation and Configuration, Oracle9i Real Application Clusters Deployment and Performance, and Oracle9i Real Application Clusters Administration. You can also read the Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard Administration and Reference Guide for additional information on Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard.
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