Re: Info needed about Praxis-Omni-Replicator

Manickam R Muthukumar wrote: > > Hello cdi folks, > > I was just wondering whether anybody has > used Omnireplicator by Praxis. I did go through > their web page, they are talking about the same > thing which Informix talking about CDR (Continuous > data replication). My questions are that, is > Informix is going to buy the software from > Praxis??.Any omnireplicator user out their give me > some details like how it works, how easy/difficult > to configure/maintain/manage ??. > > Thanks in advance > > -- > ~~~~ SMILE !! increases the face value > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > M.R.Muthukumar Database Consultant > Email:m_muthukumar@litle.net > muthukumar@geocities.com > m_muthukumar@hotmail.com > > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/9956/ > http://members.tripod.com/~m_muthukumar/info.html > > !! Strong believer in making things work !! > (Opinion expressed here are mine only) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~ Manickam, The Omni product is good, it works, and relatively smooth installation and set-up. Keep in mind the fundamental difference between the Informix Replication and Praxis: Praxis - trigger based Informix - logfile based The trigger based method can be slower than the log file method Informix uses, so I would only recommend a third-party product for disparate, or heterogeneous platforms. For complex replication across disparate systems, i.e. Informix-to-Oracle, you will need to either invent your own replication scheme, ending up with something <= Praxis, or other repl product, and maybe miss something. I could be wrong, if Informix is now supporting other-than-informix data bases to replicate. Bi-directional replication is where things can really get crazy. Unless you are a replication expert, you should retain a replication expert, or get Praxis ( or who-ever ) working, and learn about all the other things about replication you didn't think about that Praxis did. The science of replication is not unlike understanding Banyan trees. It just keeps sprouting new limbs. -- Tim Schaefer \\\\|// tschaefe@mindspring.com (6 6) Florida, USA, Earth -------------------------------oOOo---( )---o00o-------------------------------- http://www.inxutil.com Liberty: http://www.lp.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------