BigMemory 4.3.9 | Component Documentation | WAN Replication User Guide | About the WAN Replication Service | What Is the WAN Replication Service?
 
What Is the WAN Replication Service?
BigMemory WAN Replication reliably replicates data on a per-cache basis across two or more regions connected by wide area networks. This allows geographically remote data centers to maintain eventually consistent views of data. With BigMemory reliability and predictability, WAN replication ensures business continuity and can be used as part of a disaster recovery plan.
BigMemory WAN Replication integrates with your application so that caches marked for WAN replication are automatically synchronized across the WAN link. The service includes:
*Fault tolerance
*Scaling (both at the local cluster and in number of WAN-linked clusters)
*Support for multiple topologies
*Operational simplicity
Please note that due to its nature, the WAN Replication Service has a variety of limitations, both in terms of performance, and data consistency. Customer workloads and required guarantee levels vary highly, making it complex to answer whether needs can be met by this service. If you are interested in using this service you should first carefully vet your use case, including via testing with a realistic set of data and peak transaction workload on the actual network infrastructure to be used.