Leif Mortenson wrote:
> We have been working on scalability issues for an application that we
> have implented on Apache. One of the big bottlenecks has been our
> backend database. We needed to have a way to distribute our data without
> having to pay for a truely clustered database solution.
>
> We decided to implement a kind of poor man's cluster by dividing our
> data amongst a cluster of backend databases and then accessing the data
> using the modulous of the hash of the data's primary key. This lets us
> reliably access the data even though it is distributed across several
> databases.
Awesome!
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> I was wondering if anyone on the list has had any experience setting up
> Data Base Clusters like this who might have some advice on how they
> could be better implemented. These have been working for us so far, but
> are still new.
Maybe not, but as you can see with the DataSource code in general, it just
takes a few iterations before we can see true potential for improving the
existing design.
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