5 Questions to Ask When Designing Highly Available Databases

High availability databases are essential to organizations depending on missioncritical, 24/7 access. The use cases of a highly available database may vary between a financial services organization or a telecommunications provider, but the desired result is the same: an incredibly reliable database that minimizes downtime. Organizations often strive for availability down to the decimal point as a percentage of uptime in a given year, such as four nines (99.99 percent availability). Every second of downtime can translate to lost revenue, or worse.

If you’re tasked with designing a highly available database, we detail five questions you need to consider before taking action.

 

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