What Are the Differences Between Real-Time Migration and Real-Time Synchronization?
Item | Real-Time Migration | Real-Time Synchronization |
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Scenario | Migration can be performed between different cloud platforms, from on-premises databases to cloud databases, or on cloud databases across regions. | Real-time analysis, report system, and data warehouse environment |
Characteristics |
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Supported databases | For details, see Migration Overview. | For details, see Synchronization Overview. |
Functions and features | Users can be migrated. | Users cannot be migrated. |
Parameters can be compared. | Parameters cannot be compared. | |
Migration objects cannot be edited in the incremental phase. | Synchronization objects can be edited in the incremental phase, and added or deleted dynamically. | |
Object name mapping is not supported. | Object names mapped to the destination database can be changed, so the names of tables and databases in the source and destination databases can be different. | |
Data processing is not supported. | Data processing is supported. You can add rules, such as data filtering and column processing, for selected objects. | |
Primary/Standby switchover is not supported. | Primary/Standby switchover is not supported. | |
Remarks | Different data flows support different functions and features. For details, see Precautions. | Different data flows support different functions and features. For details, see Precautions. |