Application Continuity

Application Continuity is an Oracle Database feature that masks interruptions at the database level for planned and unplanned situations, improving the fault tolerance of applications that rely on Oracle Database.

Application Continuity for Oracle Database

Prepare your systems to support continuous availability during planned maintenance and unplanned outages using Oracle Application Continuity.

Application Continuity key capabilities

Read about the unique benefits of Application Continuity

    • Application Continuity averts application disruptions during planned maintenance and unplanned database or server outages without needing application code changes or server restarts.

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    • Application Continuity gracefully migrates sessions between Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) instances or Oracle Active Data Guard databases but does not abort or abruptly disconnect applications, which avoids connection storms, preserves the application's session state, and ensures that replayable, interrupted transactions come to a successful end.

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    • Application Continuity supports a broad range of commercial and custom applications on various coding platforms, like Python, PHP, Java, and .NET, including drivers such as JDBC and ODP.NET, and everyday application servers/connection pools, such as WebLogic, JBoss with UCP, and HikariCP.

    • Application Continuity extends Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) objectives and principles of providing zero data loss and zero application downtime to recover uncommitted (in-flight) transactions and the application stack.

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    • Application Continuity generates rich replay statistics and provides an integrated AC Check functionality to report on successful replays and uncovered calls for further optimization.

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    • Application Continuity is unique to Oracle Database; the only database currently offering a business continuity solution such as Application Continuity.

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“More than 100 local municipalities throughout Japan run mission-critical workloads on cloud services provided by RKKCS. With Application Continuity, RKKCS transparently provides continuous services, even during the regular Autonomous Database maintenance windows.”

Yushi KoikeTechnical Division Manager, Research and Development Department, RKKCS Corporation

Experience Oracle Application Continuity

Try out Application Continuity yourself in the LiveLab: "Made simple with Universal Connection Pool"

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