PCLabs Survey, Part VII: Embedded Database / Branch Office Support

- can run on a laptop running Windows 95 with 32MB of RAM
- replication         - trigger approach or log-sniffer approach?       - one-way (push) replication       -
bi-directional(synchronize) replication
 
- remote administration       - pager or e-mail notification of errors on remote server       - administration tools
canmanage a remote database       - administration tools can send jobs to groups of servers at once       - can
delegateadministrative tasks (partial access to administration tools and jobs)
 
- can run stored procedures on remote system
- distributed transactions using two-phase commit       - with other servers running this database server software
- with other servers running database server software from other companies (e.g. XA support)
 



Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org