Drive broader data availability where you need it most
Your production database is under pressure from all sides: uptime demands that leave no room for failure, reporting queries that compete with transactions, and Oracle licensing costs that keep climbing. Something has to give. Database teams are tasked to keep those data systems running and up-to-date, analytics current, and costs predictable, all without adding complexity. With Quest SharePlex, you can easily achieve high availability, increase scalability, integrate data, and offload reporting. Move data from Oracle or PostgreSQL to the platforms you really want to use, on-premises or in the cloud, while meeting business continuity requirements and freeing resources for innovation.
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FAQ
Database replication creates and maintains synchronized copies of your database across multiple locations or servers. The process captures changes made to a source database, including inserts, updates, and deletes, and applies those same changes to one or more target databases.
The replication engine continuously monitors the source database for modifications. When changes occur, they're captured, transmitted over the network, and applied to target systems in a way that preserves data integrity and transactional consistency. This ensures all database copies remain accurate reflections of the source.
Organizations use database replication for disaster recovery, high availability, load balancing read operations, and enabling analytics on separate systems without impacting production performance. The target databases can reside on-premises, in the cloud, or across hybrid environments.
SharePlex specializes in log-based, asynchronous replication, using CDC (change data capture). By reading database transaction logs directly, SharePlex captures changes at the source without impacting production performance, with no triggers or agents required on your database.
While asynchronous, SharePlex delivers near real-time data movement with minimal latency, typically (milli-)seconds behind the source. This approach balances performance with reliability, ensuring transactions are captured completely before replication.
SharePlex also supports flexible configurations: one-to-many for distributing data, many-to-one for consolidation, and bidirectional replication for active-active environments where multiple databases accept writes simultaneously.
Data replication is the broader concept, copying any data between systems, whether files, objects, application data, or database records. It encompasses various methods and technologies for keeping information synchronized across locations.
Database replication is a specialized form of data replication focused specifically on relational databases. It understands database structures, maintains transactional integrity, preserves relationships between tables, and ensures changes are applied in the correct order. Database replication tools like SharePlex work with SQL transactions and schema objects rather than treating data as simple files or records.
In short: all database replication is data replication, but not all data replication handles the complexity of database environments.
Yes, migration is one of SharePlex's core use cases. SharePlex enables near-zero-downtime migrations by replicating data continuously while your source system remains operational. Once synchronized, you can cut over to the new environment with minimal disruption. This works for migrations between database versions, platforms, or from on-premises to cloud. Modernize your platform without the risk of losing data.
Beyond migration, SharePlex serves two other primary use cases:
High Availability & Disaster Recovery: SharePlex keeps standby databases synchronized and ready for failover. This supports the three pillars of replication: Availability (keeping systems running), Scalability (distributing read workloads), and Integration (moving data where it's needed).
Real-Time Analytics & AI: SharePlex feeds continuously updated data to analytics platforms, data warehouses, and AI systems without impacting production databases. Your teams get fresh data for reporting and machine learning models without querying source systems directly.
Organizations across industries rely on SharePlex for mission-critical operations:
A leading global collaboration platform saved millions of dollars by eliminating 100’s of Oracle databases when migrating to PostgreSQL, and met their HA/failover requirements (like active/active with failover plus conflict resolution) without any downtime.
A European dairy cooperative replicates 94% of ERP transactions to their BI systems within 60 seconds, enabling 800+ users to track production in real time. "Without SharePlex, our users would be working blind."
A U.S. health research organization manages a 50TB research database with near-instantaneous replication, critical during COVID-19 when they provided real-time dashboards for their state.
Boiron, a global pharmaceutical leader, achieves replication latency as low as 30 seconds while meeting strict recovery objectives. "SharePlex has been a gamechanger."