Welcome to the Sequoia Project!

Latest stable version: 2.10.10∞
Latest development version: Sequoia 4.0 (No builds yet)
Sequoia 3.0 has been discontinued

Sequoia is part of Tungsten

Tungsten is a database scale-out stack. Sequoia provides the multi-master replication solution within Tungsten. Tungsten will be available 08/08/08. For more information on Tungsten click here∞ or visit Continuent.org∞.

What is Sequoia?

Sequoia is a transparent middleware solution offering clustering, load balancing and failover services for any database. The database is distributed and replicated over multiple nodes and Sequoia balances the queries between them. Sequoia handles node and network failures transparently. It also provides support for hot recovery, online maintenance operations and online upgrades.

Continuent uni/cluster is a commercially supported version of Sequoia. Learn more at www.continuent.com∞.

Features in a nutshell

• No modification of existing applications or databases.
• Operational with any database providing a JDBC driver.
• High availability provided by advanced RAIDb technology.
• Transparent failover and recovery capabilities.
• Performance scalability with unique load balancing and query result caching features.
• Integrated JMX-based administration and monitoring.
• 100% Java implementation allowing portability across platforms with a JRE 1.4 or greater.
• Open source licensed under Apache v2 license.

GORDA

Sequoia is the reference middleware implementation of the GORDA∞ specification. GORDA is a research project supported by the European Community that aims at database replication standardization.