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October 01, 2009
Payment clearing house VocaLink targets database speed
Examines new version of Oracle Database 11g
By Leo King, www.computerworlduk.com
VocaLink has said it is addressing its own network transaction speed and uptime, to support fast and real-time payment processing, placing some of the emphasis for speed on its Oracle database.
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The payment clearing house, which supports the Faster Payments Service and the Single Euro Payment Area, uses Oracle 11g release 1 as its database, and beta tested the second release that was launched at the start of September.
“It’s critical for us to have 24/7 uptime, and speed is vital – we have strict service level agreements,” said Martin McGeough, technical architect at the company.
In an interview at a customer event for the second release of Oracle 11g, he added: “We’ve got big plans to use the online application change functionality, so we can update systems quickly and transparently.”
Another speed feature that may be used by VocaLink as it adopts the full second release is ‘intelligent’ data management. This aims to boost performance by putting rarely used data on disks' inner rings, while information needed more often is stored on the outer rings.
McGeough also favoured the Real Application Clusters (RAC) in the software. RACs allow database workloads to be deployed across a pool of commodity hardware, meaning if any servers fail the others can pick up the slack.
Vocalink said in July that it makes heavy use of automation options within its middleware, Oracle 11g Fusion.
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