Different approaches for connecting Weblogic Server to RAC database

Albin Issac
Tech Learnings
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3 min readJun 19, 2020

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Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) is a software component you can add to a high-availability solution that enables users on multiple machines to access a single database with increased performance. RAC comprises two or more Oracle database instances running on two or more clustered machines and accessing a shared storage device via cluster technology.

If your application requires load balancing across RAC nodes, WebLogic Server supports this capability through use of Using Connect-Time Load Balancing/Failover with Oracle RAC(JDBC URL based Load Balancing/Failover), JDBC Multi Data sources with Oracle RAC nodes and Gridlink Data Source.

Multi Data Source:

Refer the below URL’s for details on Multi Data Source.

Connect-Time Load Balancing/Failover with Oracle RAC(JDBC URL based Load Balancing/Failover):

The JDBC connection string can be configure with single data source to support the load…

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Albin Issac
Tech Learnings

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