[ale] MySQL Cluster

[Lightner, Jeff]

Given that MySQL is now owned by Oracle and they're already doing unfriendly things with the OEL as opposed to other Linux distros as regards Oracle products I wouldn't trust them to continue playing nice with MySQL.  So if you're making a choice you probably want to look at Postgresql.

Unfortunately I've not done clustering with either of them so can't help you.





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Mike Harrison
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 4:57 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] MySQL Cluster

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> On 02/16/2012 02:35 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> the writes are screaming fast and the reads are always consistent!
>
> Additionally, it is FAST and has MANY TUTORIALS!  And hey, magic pixies
> are always fun, right?  :-)
>
> http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7091415/mysql-is-a-database

While cute and funny, and in some cases true...

It's really not constructive in this case. I'm looking for some feedback
from someone that has actually or is actually using MySQL in a cluster
configuration. Yeah, I've been googling, reading, etc.. I was hoping to
find someone whith whome I have an idea about what kind of user/person
they were, and what their feedback is.  Random blog entries are
interesting, but are hard to gauge the relevance.

It's being considered aong other options, including retooling to
PostgreSQL. Heck... considered Sybase/M$-SQL just because of the tools and
support for it. (have past experience with them as well)

My personal experience using MySQL, stand alone and master-slave
with databases in the 1 to 8gb range (small?) in mission critical
situations has been pretty darn impressive. There are things
I wish it did better (crosstabs for example) but if used
simply, it rocks.

Anyone out there got any constructive criticism or commentary?


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