Re: distributed databases?

In article <71pt0s$13t$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>,   AlterMann_at_my-dejanews.com wrote:

Alter: You might want to visit http://www.peerdirect.com Our company has developed a distributed database system that operates with Oracle and most other databases. Asynchronous, bidirection update anywhere replication. Efficient, robust and secure across TCP/IP networks, including the Internet.

>
> I have a problem that I couldn't find a solution for neither on the web nor
> searching dejanews, so I hope it's not been answered ten times already. :-)
>
> we have several (two at the moment, with option to scale higher) database
> servers that are accessed from webservers. however, they don't only read
> data, they also write (statistics, mostly). the database is "mirrored", i.e.
> both servers do the same job, it's two for load-balancing and redundancy
> reasons. our current problem is keeping those write operations synchronized.
> ideally, the web-servers should be abstracted from the db-servers, so they
> don't have to care about them at all. for all they know, they connect to some
> machine and talk with it. that it might be the other one the next time should
> be transparent.
>
> please give me some pointers to possible solutions that we can check.
>
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