A distributed Advanced Replication system can use the off-peak hours of the system. The Advanced Replication architecture allows the synchronization process to be fully tailored.

When you are designing your Advanced Replication environment, consider the capacity of the available infrastructure. For example, you could organize most data transfer to take place when the most network bandwidth is available. During peak hours of network usage, you could specify that only the most urgent synchronization tasks take place, such as propagation of high-priority transactions.

Because there is some overhead related to synchronizing data, a compromise between the overall performance of the database and the currency of the data is often needed. The more up-to-date the data needs to be, the greater the frequency of small synchronization messages, and thus the synchronization causes more overhead.