GK Question

technology medium mcq

Which database feature enables automatic failover and high availability across multiple nodes?

  1. Replication
  2. Sharding
  3. Indexing
  4. Caching

Answer: Replication

Replication maintains copies of data across nodes for fault tolerance and read scalability. Synchronous (strong consistency) vs asynchronous (eventual consistency). Critical for resilient database design.

Topic Database Technologies
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