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Load Balancing

Active / Active
The High Availability nodes connected together using HVR do not just have to be passive machines, which are only used after emergency. Instead they are active databases that can be exploited for spreading the load from the production machine.
The transactions spread to the other machines can be read-only transactions (e.g. for a reporting database), or they can be read-write transactions for an 'Active / Active' configuration. 'Active / Active' configuration is extremely scalable and resilient but requires that the application is able to tolerate latency. An HVR 'Active / Active' replication cluster can scale with high performance across many nodes and can also scale geographically to a local node in each region.