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How many copies of the database are used in your current system?
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Answer from AI
The number of database copies in the system depends on the architecture and requirements for fault tolerance and performance.
- In simple systems, a single primary database is often used.
- To ensure high availability and scalability, replication is used — creating multiple copies (replicas) of the database.
- For example, in a master-slave architecture, there is one primary (master) database and several replicas (slaves) for reading.
- In distributed systems, there can be multiple master nodes with replicas.
Without specific details about your system, it's difficult to specify an exact number, but it usually ranges from 1 (one database) to several dozen copies in large-scale systems.