Bruce Momjian schrieb am 22.03.2016 um 16:07: > For me, streaming replication fully solves the high reliability problem > and sharding fully solves the scaling problem. Of course, if you need > both, you have to deploy both, which gives you 100% of two solutions, > rather than Oracle RAC which gives you 50% of each. > > However, I do think database upgrades are easier with Oracle RAC, and I > think it is much easier to add/remove nodes than with sharding. For me, > this chart summarizes it: > > HA Scaling Upgrade Add/Remove > Oracle RAC 50% 50% easy easy > Streaming Rep. 100% 25%* hard easy > Sharding 0% 100% hard hard > > * Allows read scaling To be fair: you don't need RAC in Oracle to get streaming replication. You can use a hot-standby in Oracle the same way you do in Postgres And if you use a "cold-standby" (where only the archive logs are applied, but the instance is not started) you don't even have to pay for the second license. > However, I do think database upgrades are easier with Oracle RAC I think you can do a rolling upgrade with a standby, but I'm not entirely sure. Thomas -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
