What are the differences between RAC and GRID?

Are you looking for the differences in RAC and GRID system in Oracle? Are you also would like to know how RAC and GRID systems related to each other? If yes, then you reached the right place. In this article, we will see what are the differences between RAC and Grid systems.

What is RAC system?

The database system comprises the configuration of multiple servers which are combined together with clustering software or program and accessing the shared disk storage structures is known as Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) system.

What is Grid System

The Grid system represents the pool of database hosts or servers, along with a pool of storage, and networks in an inter-related resource platform. Grid is used for effective workload management within the grid database.

What is the relationship between RAC and Grid systems?

The RAC is an integral part of Grid computing and RAC helps Grid computing for high availability information sharing.

What are differences between RAC and Grid?

Here is a list of the differences between RAC and Grid systems

Cluster	Grid
User management in Cluster is centralized	User management in the Grid is decentralized
In Cluster, the inter-operability is VIA and it is proprietary	No standard is developed for inter-operability
Ownership is singe in case of Cluster	The multiple ownership exits in Grid
Throughput is medium	Throughput is high
The guaranteed capacity	Capacity varies for grid implementation
Centralized resource management	Decentralized resource management
Can be used with commodity computer	Can be used with commodity and high end computers
The scheduling is centralized	The scheduling is decentralized
Single system image is possible	Single system image is not possible