Welcome to the Sequoia Project!

Latest stable version: 2.10.10∞

What is Sequoia?

Sequoia is a transparent middleware solution offering clustering, load balancing and failover services for any database. Sequoia is the continuation of the C-JDBC project. The database is distributed and replicated among several nodes and Sequoia balances the queries among these nodes. Sequoia handles node and network failures with transparent failover. It also provides support for hot recovery, online maintenance operations and online upgrades.

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.
• Professional support, training and consulting provided by Continuent Inc∞.

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.