Stinger provides new features to enrich the resiliency of the DB2 UDB OnDemand database for continuity of business operations or disaster recovery services.
The biggest feature for high availability in Stinger is high-availability disaster recovery (HADR). This implementation is based on the Informix® implementation of HDR. HADR is an easy-to-use data replication feature that provides high-availability (HA) solutions for both partial and complete site failures.
Essentially, HADR is log shipping (which DB2 UDB supports today) but from the log-buffer instead of from a hardened disk log; this method provides a lot of granularity to suit your solution’s high-availability requirements.
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HADR also allows you to do rolling upgrades (for example, upgrading your version of DB2 UDB or the operating system) without having to suffer an outage.