Alexander Staubo wrote:
> As it stands today, horizontally partitioning a database into multiple
> separate "shards" is incredibly invasive on the application
> architecture, and typically relies on brittle and non-obvious hacks
> such as configuring sequence generators with staggered starting
> numbers, omitting referential integrity constraints, sacrificing
> transactional semantics, and moving query aggregation into the app
> level. On top of this, dumb caches such as Memcached are typically
> layered to avoid hitting the database in the first place.
Have you looked at raidb? http://c-jdbc.objectweb.org. Narrow niche,
but if it happens to be the one you are in, then it's an option. I took
a quick look at the user's page, and both of them were using PostgreSQL.
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Guy Rouillier