It provides significantly improved uptime and lower operating costs than multiple single-server database implementations, and lower hardware, maintenance, and support costs. It can be implemented at a much lower cost, without compromising availability, making it the perfect solution for business critical applications such as data warehousing, web back-end databases, custom database application development, packaged applications and database migration from other platforms. This innovative storage solution from Compaq provides the capacity, scalability and performance needed for the explosive data growth in the enterprise. With only one database to manage, customers' operations costs are less. Further, all database management tasks can be performed from a single workstation console, which can be configured and is easy to use.
Users can concurrently access the clustered database on read and write operations.
Distributed operations with other Oracle servers are fully supported. In the event of a failure anywhere in the cluster, the remaining nodes can continue to access the database, ensuring high availability for your most critical applications. In addition, Oracle Parallel Server software performs online recovery, complementing the highly reliable Compaq Server platform to ensure exceptional data integrity and database consistency. Investment Protection and Flexibility in cluster configuration. This means that customers can achieve high availability systems through clusters assembled using their existing servers.