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Systems, methods and computer program products for multicast database replication are described herein. An embodiment includes creating a replication group for replication of data. One or more replicate (or target) databases are subscribed to the replication group and the replication group may include one or more subscribed replicate databases. The replication group is associated with a replication group address. Embodiments send (or publish) data that is to be replicated to the replication group multicast address causing automatic replication of the data to the subscribed replicate databases. In this way, by sending data to be replicated once to a replication group address, the data is automatically replicated to several subscribed replicate databases and a replication server need not establish distinct point-to-point connections with each replicate database.
