Distributed Database Architecture, a solution where redundancy is essential. Networks fail; systems crash and remote locations may not always have access to mission critical information. The solution can only be found through redundancy via distributed database architecture.

The food service industry is a perfect example of how this architecture is being used today. Fast food chains like McDonalds and Burger King have come to rely on this solution to assure prompt service to its high volume of customers. In an environment where there is a high volume of transactions occurring across multiple terminals you cannot risk maintaining all of the information on one server. If the server goes down or the network fails, all the terminals become useless and the flow of transactions comes to a halt. Besides loosing thousands of dollars in transactions, you also risk loosing the loyalty of your customer base.

Why take the risk? If you have your data constantly being distributed across each terminal, then, if the network fails or the server shuts down, the terminals remain operational, the transactions continue and the customers are being served. Once the network or the server comes back online, redundancy takes place and information is distributed to the server and to each terminal on the network.

As data storage becomes increasingly less expensive, high speed processors and increased bandwidth are becoming more and more common and affordable, there is no reason to take the risk of isolating your mission critical data on a single server. If your business is processing high volumes of data across multiple terminals, or if you need to distribute critical information to locations throughout the world across multiple time zones, then maybe it is time for you to consider Distributed Database Architecture as your solution.