Large caches ...

[Hans-Juergen Schoenig]

David Phillips wrote:

>On 7/2/05, Hans-Juergen Schoenig <familiar at cybertec.at> wrote:
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>>We are planning to develop an application on top of a very large in
>>memory database. Basically the size of the application will be around
>>100 - 400 gb (in memory). We will need a quite large server farm to
>>achieve that. The problem now is: What happens if a server fucks up?
>>What can we do to make this work 24x7? Rebuilding the cache from scratch
>>is not an option as it is too large :(.
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>You might try MySQL Cluster:
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>http://www.mysql.com/products/cluster/
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This is the worst crap I have ever seen :).
Even considering MySQL as a database is somehow strange - to me it is a 
pseudo-sql frontend to a flat file but not a database ;).

    best regards,

       hans