The software which Oracle Corporation markets as Oracle Data Guard forms an extension to the Oracle RDBMS. It aids in establishing and maintaining secondary "standby databases" as alternative/supplementary repositories to production "primary databases".
Oracle provides both GUI and command-line tools for managing Data Guard configurations.
Data Guard supports both physical standby and logical standby sites. Oracle Corporation makes Data Guard available only as a bundled feature included within its "Enterprise Edition" of the Oracle RDBMS.
With appropriately set-up Data Guard operations, DBAs can facilitate failovers or switchovers to alternative hosts in the same or alternative locations.
Read more about Oracle Data Guard: Configurations, Advantages, Disadvantages
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