replication server

A replication server is a server, which provides data from a master database. The replication server receives all changes from replication clients and informs other replication clients from changes received.

A replication server can act as a replication client at the same time. In this case, the master database of the server is a replication database for the master database of another server. Thus, data can be distributes all over the world.

Usually, replication server are used as database server in the Internet to serve clients in the WEB.