COST EFFECTIVE FAILOVER CLUSTERING

Nilesh V. Patil, Martin P. D’souza, Pratik V. Dhiman, Parth D. Shah

Abstract: Every company or organization has to use a database for storing information. But what if this database fails? So it behooves the company to use another database for backup purpose. This is called as failover clustering. For making this clustering manageable and lucid the corporat people spend more money on buying a licensed copy for both, the core database and the redundant database. This overhead can be avoided using a database with non-similar platform in which one database is licensed and other may be freeware. If platforms are similar then the transactions between those databases become simpler. But it won’t be the case with nonsimilar platforms. Hence to overcome this problem in both cases cost effective failover clustering is proposed. For designing such system a common interfacing technique between two non-similar database platforms has to be developed. This will make provision for using any two database platforms for failover clustering

Keywords: CEFC (Cost Effective Failover Clustering), DAL (Data Access Layer), DB (Database), HA (High Availability)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0303040