What are the benefits of Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)?

What are the benefits of Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)?

- Oracle RAC provides High availability that becomes the foundation of the high end components used in Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture.

- Oracle RAC also provides Reliability for the Oracle Database that is being used in a widespread and allows user to easily remove the database server from a single point of failure.

- Oracle RAC focuses on Recoverability that if any failure occurs then the database should be such that it can recover from the failures. For example, connection failure.

- Oracle RAC provides an Error Detection mechanism that allows Oracle Clusterware to automatically monitors, detects and fix the error if any.

- Oracle RAC provides Scalability that is more useful in long term applications where the server runs out of the capacity and the cost is also low then it provides an easy way to increase the servers and pools to fit all the components.