[ILUG] MySQL cluster

[Kathryn Cassidy (User Account)]

> Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> > 
> > http://prometheus.zerodivide.net/mysql_cluster/
> > 
> > Found this on freshmeat yesterday. Looks like they 
propogate changes to
> > a central db through the MySQL logfile.. I wonder 
what would they do if
> > the logfile grows to over a GB in a day ;)
> 

Surely if you need that sort of power/reliability in a 
database you'd go for a fully featured rdbms like 
oracle.  MySQL's lovely for small scale, read only web 
databases, but I wouldn't use it for anything big 
enough to require clustering...

Kathryn.