Re: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

On 1/20/2005 9:23 AM, Jean-Max Reymond wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:03:31 +0100, Hervé Piedvache  wrote:
> 
>> We were at this moment thinking about a Cluster solution ... We saw on the
>> Internet many solution talking about Cluster solution using MySQL ... but
>> nothing about PostgreSQL ... the idea is to use several servers to make a
>> sort of big virtual server using the disk space of each server as one, and
>> having the ability to use the CPU and RAM of each servers in order to
>> maintain good service performance ...one can imagin it is like a GFS but
>> dedicated to postgreSQL...
>> 
> 
> forget mysql cluster for now.

Sorry for the late reply.

I'd second that. I was just on the Solutions Linux in Paris and spoke 
with MySQL people.

There were some questions I had around the new NDB cluster tables and I 
stopped by at their booth. My question if there are any plans to add 
foreign key support to NDB cluster tables got answered with "it will 
definitely be in the next version, which is the one containing NDB 
cluster, so yes, it will support foreign key from the start".

Back home I found some more time to investigate and found this forum 
article http://lists.mysql.com/cluster/1442 posted by a MySQL AB senior 
software architect, where he says exactly the opposite.

I don't know about your application, but trust me that maintaining 
proper referential integrity on the application level against a 
multimaster clustered database isn't that easy. So this is in fact a 
very important question.


Jan

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