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Not in one place, and not sufficient to give anyone an implementation roadmap, but that is to be expected, as this is still a commercially-active architecture.
by yourapostasy 8y ago
Not in one place, and not sufficient to give anyone an implementation roadmap, but that is to be expected, as this is still a commercially-active architecture. They're not about to give away their architectural advantages that easily.
But if you read between the lines, and are savvy enough to look up the background research papers, you'll pick up most of the technology. The devil as they say however, is in the engineering details, and that's where you'll run into a lot of special sauce.
You'll want to look at their Transaction Monitoring Facility (TMF) in detail. They baked fault tolerance right into the bones of the architectural design, and TMF is an identifiable chunk of how that was done. You aren't going to be able to pull off the same kind of fault tolerance they're delivering at just the database level, too. Their thinking about fault tolerance goes way beyond, down into the hardware level though it stops short of the silicon.