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Terminology

The following section describes some key terms used throughout this Help.

Change Data Capture (CDC)

Captures changes in the source data or metadata as they occur and applies them to the target endpoint as soon as possible, in near-real-time. The changes are captured and applied as units of single committed transactions and several different target tables may be updated as the result of a single source commit. This guarantees transactional integrity in the target endpoint. The CDC process for any file or table starts as soon as the data loading operation for the file or table begins.

Full load

Creates all defined files or tables on the target endpoint, automatically defines the metadata that is required at the target, and populates the tables with data from the source.

Apply latency

The gap in seconds between capturing a change in one of the source tables and applying that change to the target endpoint.

Latency when applying large transactions

This is best explained by way of example. When the most recent Apply Latency value was 10 seconds and now a transaction of one million rows gets committed at the source endpoint, Replicate starts to apply that transaction to the selected target and it will take some time to write all the changes to the target (for example 60 seconds). During the next 60 seconds, the latency value gradually grows to 70 seconds for the last change in the transaction. Once the transaction is committed, the latency drops back to the 'regular' latency (10 seconds in this case).

Latency when no transactions are being applied

When a time period passes with no changes applied to the target, the latency calculation is based on the time difference between the current time and the timestamp of the last change event read from the transaction log. This could happen, for example, if there is a high volume of activity on tables that were not selected for replication in the current task.

Source latency

The gap in seconds between when the source database wrote an event to its transaction log and when Replicate captured that change.

Target latency

The gap between when a commit is seen by Replicate (reading the source transaction log) and when the changes of that commit are seen in the target.

Overall latency

The overall latency is defined as the time gap between when a change is committed in the source database and when it is visible in the target database.

Source endpoint

A collection of files or tables managed by an endpoint management system (such as, Oracle, SQL Server) that is part of the main computing service of the IT organization of an enterprise. This source continuously updated, may need to provide a high throughput rate, may have strict 24/7 up-time requirements, and may reference or update a number of tables in the course of a single logical transaction while providing transactional consistency and integrity for the data.

Target endpoint

A collection of files or tables managed by an Endpoint Management System (DBMS), which may be different from the DBMS managing the source endpoint. It contains data that is derived from the source. It may contain only a subset of the tables, columns, or rows that appear in the source. Its tables may contain columns that do not appear in the source but are transformations or computations based on the source data.

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