How safe is my data?

Safe.

MatrixStore has 99.999% reliability for data availability.

In a standard configuration, data is mirrored across 2 nodes. The data is written to the first node the application communicates with then synchronously copies it to another node in the cluster. If the transaction fails at any point the data is not stored.

If a disk fails, then data is protected within each node, through the RAID configuration. The administrator then simply removes the bad disk and replaces it with a new disk. The RAID file system will automatically re-generate itself and return to the previous level of protection.

Nodes in a MatrixStore system can fail, MatrixStore accounts for this by monitoring each node and acting in the case of failure. When a node fails the data is automatically protected into another node in the cluster thus keeping the data both safe and available with no manual intervention.

The customer also has the choice of replicating the data to a remote location which is also handled by the MatrixStore software.