CHINA'S Ministry of Railways is revamping the country's national railway ticketing and seat reservation system using technology from Sybase, the company which supplied a previous generation of ticketing databases in 1996.
The upgraded system will be able to handle more than 4½ million ticket sales a day, with 5 000 simultaneous purchases.
Multi-site disaster recovery architecture will replicate booking data across the country, minimising the risk of data loss and ensuring functionality in the event of system failures.
Sybase, USA
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