GRIDSCALE Features
GRIDSCALE is middleware which runs between your applications and databases. Applications connect to GRIDSCALE as they would any standard database without modification. GRIDSCALE virtualizes the data infrastructure, so whether the copies of data are local or dispersed across multiple data centers in different cities, applications get consistent data reliably and quickly.
CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY
By sharing the load across multiple servers, the loss of any one server does not have an impact on the availability of the service. In addition, since servers can be taken off-line without impact, you can perform rolling upgrades on the database servers for true continuous availability.
HORIZONTAL SCALABILITY
Performance tests show that with each new GRIDSCALE server added to the cluster, application performance can increase up to 85%. As a result, instead of architecting and expensing a fully loaded database solution to handle peak demand from the outset, GRIDSCALE allows you to control when to add capacity, depending on your changing business needs.
DATA INTEGRITY
Central to GRIDSCALE is its innovative, patent-pending algorithm used to ensure that all returned data is consistent. Standard asynchronous transaction replication solutions cannot load balance requests across all nodes since they cannot guarantee data consistency across the servers.
NO APPLICATION CODE CHANGES
To take advantage of GRIDSCALE, JDBC, ODBC and DB2 CLI compliant applications typically require no code changes in the application or to the underlying database definition.
SUPPORT FOR MULTIPLE DATA CENTERS
GRIDSCALE eliminates the need for expensive and intensive data replication strategies between production and disaster recovery (DR) sites. With GRIDSCALE you can solve both HA and DR issues with a single solution. Using a highly efficient communication protocol, GRIDSCALE allows database servers to span multiple, geographically dispersed data centers. As a result, you can load balance across multiple data centers, tap into idle capacity at DR sites and ensure that your DR database is always up-to-date.
EASY-TO-USE, COMPREHENSIVE MANAGEMENT
GRIDSCALE's Web-based console and command-line interface provide straightforward management and administration of GRIDSCALE and database servers. Diagnostic and fault event notification for GRIDSCALE and the underlying managed environment can be forwarded to an enterprise management system for processing.
