Symmetric DS is an awesome tool for trigger based replication whcih works for all major database vendors, including but not limited to PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle and many others. Symmetric-DS is a java application and can execute on any platform on whcih JRE is available including Windows and Linux. Trigger based replication, in constrast to disk based (eg. DRBD ) or transaction log file shipping based or statement based , works by registering triggers on DMLs and sending the data thus generated to remote machines. Another very popular trigger based DB replication tool is Slony . Symmetric-DS in addition to being database agnostic also supports multi-master replication (MMR). MMR usecase involves multiple database nodes, connected in a pool with DML updates coming from any of them. This is different from the normal master-slave replication, where slaves are not expected to generate any data events, and the sole authority of database is the master. MMR requirement causes d...
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