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Improve Data Distribution with Sharding

Many businesses now offer products and services to a global market. The IT infrastructure supporting these enterprises must balance the benefits of data consolidation against the better performance and reduced risk of data distribution. Distributing data across different geographies is also known as sharding.

Benefits of Geographic Replication

• Better network response times, because the data is closer to the end-user.
• Business Continuity, because multiple copies of the data are kept and end-users can still access their local data if a long-distance data connection is broken.
• Efficient use of limited network bandwidth, because instead of transmitting each end-user, HVR only sends each change in a compressed network packet.

 Why is HVR the Perfect Platform for Geographic Replication?

• HVR is extremely efficiency over WAN due to its built-in compression and limited use of network round-trips.
• SSL Encryption can be enabled, which means that HVR can even run over a public network.
• HVR is not restricted to one business need. The solution can simultaneously address multiple requirements inside the enterprise, such as Disaster Recovery or a data-feed to a Data Warehouse for Business Intelligence.
• Bi-directional replication with automatic collision detection and resolution, so HVR will ensure consistency if data can be changed in simultaneously different databases,
• Single point of control, with an optional redundant hub for High Availability.
• Ability to handle thousands of targets and sources.
• Horizontal partitioning (also known as sharding) so that datasets from different databases can be consolidated into a single table.
• HVR is quick & easy to use and manage to maximize the Return On Investment for the business.
• Built-in support for comparing and refreshing between heterogeneous databases. These operations can also be performed with great efficiency across a WAN.
• Managed File Transfer, so database changes can be replicated alongside file changes.
• End-to-End control of the entire business process.
• Change Management for complex replication scenarios.