Real-Time Database Replication with Arcion

Arcion migrates and replicates operational data from traditional databases such as Oracle and IBM’s DB2 to cloud data stores such as Databricks and Snowflake. President and CEO Gary Hagmueller explained that it allows organizations to feed transactional data in real time.

“The thing that is super hard about what we do and why there are very few people that do it is that doing it with 100% transactional integrity is super difficult,” he said. “You have to understand the structure of the data, you have to understand the order of the transactions that are going through, and a whole host of other things to make sure that you’re only delivering it once.”

A mitigating issue that line-of-business operators worry about are disruptions to their transaction systems, and the risk of attacks on those systems when running them in the cloud.

“You don’t want to have any security holes or the ability to run stuff on these production systems that could get hacked, or somehow be exploited or other things like that,” Hagmueller said.

Because Arcion’s system is agentless, “you don’t have those worries,” he added. Arcion has about 30 connectors to legacy databases and cloud data stores. Hagmueller said the company releases three or four connectors per quarter.