Transparent failover and restore?

[Kevin A. Burton]

Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:

>On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Kevin A. Burton wrote:
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>>MySQL cluster is still a bit early ... It also doesn't provide disk
>>based storage (all memory) so hence it can be very expensive to deploy.
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>But memcached doesn't have disk-based storage.
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I know... but memcached is an LRU cache. MySQL cluster is not.

>At least with MySQL Cluster you can stop/start a node without losing any
>data.
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>It does back up the dataset it's storing in memory to disk, though.  And
>if it hasn't committed in a while, it can get the data from another node.
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>Anyway, I'll stop with the MySQL cluster discussions for now, at least
>until I have any code or benchmarks.
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Its interesting but its still really early. A more conservative approach 
would be to use the memory tables...

Anyway...

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