Inefficient application interaction with data/the database and inefficient SQL can be particularly problematic. From: dombrooks@xxxxxxxxxxx To: ckaj111@xxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: why are some applications oracle but not RAC compatible? Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:35:08 +0000 Depends if your application workload can be logically partitioned such that your db services can direct independent workloads to different nodes - otherwise if you treat rac like a black box then there is often a tendency for cluster waits to have a high impact as you round robin requests for the same data to different nodes.