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Database Design and Modeling with Google Cloud

You're reading from   Database Design and Modeling with Google Cloud Learn database design and development to take your data to applications, analytics, and AI

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804611456
Length 234 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abirami Sukumaran Abirami Sukumaran
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Database Model: Business and Technical Design Considerations
2. Chapter 1: Data, Databases, and Design FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Handling Data on the Cloud 4. Part 2:Structured Data
5. Chapter 3: Database Modeling for Structured Data 6. Chapter 4: Setting Up a Fully Managed RDBMS 7. Chapter 5: Designing an Analytical Data Warehouse 8. Part 3:Semi-Structured, Unstructured Data, and NoSQL Design
9. Chapter 6: Designing for Semi-Structured Data 10. Chapter 7: Unstructured Data Management 11. Part 4:DevOps and Databases
12. Chapter 8: DevOps and Databases 13. Part 5:Data to AI
14. Chapter 9: Data to AI – Modeling Your Databases for Analytics and ML 15. Chapter 10: Looking Ahead – Designing for LLM Applications 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Replication and availability

Database replication is the process of copying data from one database to another. This can be done for a variety of reasons, including the following:

  • To improve performance: By replicating data to multiple servers, you can distribute the load and improve performance
  • To improve availability: By replicating data to multiple servers, you can ensure that your data is always available, even if one server fails
  • To improve disaster recovery: By replicating data to multiple locations, you can protect your data from disasters

The primary reasons behind using data replication are to support high availability, disaster recovery, and to allow your data to scale without affecting the performance.

There are a number of different ways to replicate data for cloud databases depending on your need, some of them are listed as follows. The instance being replicated is referred to here as the primary instance and the replication copies are referred...

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