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During the recent Developer Week 2025, Cloudflare announced the beta of global read replication for its serverless SQL database D1, providing a globally distributed option without sacrificing ...

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Replication excels at providing immediate data availability, but it shouldn’t be the sole safeguard against human errors, data corruption, or cyberattacks. Data replication has stood the test of time, ...

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Oracle uses a variety of technologies to keep multiple copies of databases available for business needs. Some of these technologies include Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Streams, Real Application Clusters ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...

Backups, snapshots and replication are key methods of data protection. We look at how and why they should form part of a comprehensive enterprise data protection strategy. In this article, we’ll look ...