Who says RDBMS cannot be geographically distributed and maintain all the ACID properties.
Imagine a functional, live, operational database living on separate servers scattered around the globe in say, San Francisco, London, Dubai, Moscow, and Johannesburg,
simultaneously
. Not synced, replicated, or cloned — but a single database without a single location.
Now tie up your jaw.
Actually, no imagination is required, because today TransLattice announced the world’s first geographically distributed relational database. The company calls it TED, or the TransLattice Elastic Database.
“For the last 15 years, people have been trying to solve the distributed database problem,” TransLattice vice president Louise Funke told VentureBeat. “This is unique … it’s truly one database with data in multiple locations.”
It’s the perfect solution for companies that absolutely must remain live and functional — no matter what happens to electrical power generation in northern Virginia. More on that later.
The Santa Clara company’s goal was to create a database that can live in multiple locations simultaneously but…
View original 1,048 more words
