On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:43:43AM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 6/21/2005 6:46 PM, elein wrote:
> >Has anyone investigated metilinx as an alternative 
> >replication solution?
> >Anything good, bad, indifferent about the company 
> >and product (besides not being open source and not 
> >pg specific) would be helpful.
> 
> From this whitepaper:
> 
>     http://www.metilinx.com/images/DB_Whitepaper.pdf
> 
> which is the most detailed (clear throat) technical information I was 
> able to find through Google, I conclude that the whole thing acts as a 
> db proxy that duplicates database traffic on the SQL statement level. 
> The client applications connect via OLEDB or ODBC to the "replicators". 
> All replicators communicate with the "sequencer", which determines the 
> total order of all "SQL statements". The replicators then execute this 
> total order against all connected databases, returning the result 
> directly to the client.
> 
> 
> Jan
> 
Thank you.  I've read the paper, too, and was hoping other
people had investigated further.  I will be talking to their
tech folks so I may have information if other people need it.

--elein
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