There's another project out there that, although not specifically targetted towards fault tolerance, adresses some of those same issues:
http://sqlrelay.sourceforge.net/ Incidentally, only implementing the varchar datatype isn't as much of a problem as you might think; right now, all results come back as char arrays and any numerical types need to be converted using atoi, strtoull, etc. Aaron ""Patrick"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > > In a recent interview with Matt Dillon of the DragonFlyBsd project on OsNews > on of his other projects was mentioned as well : BackPlane Fault-Tolerant > Distributed RDMS > > The idea from what i can gather with this project is to create a scalable > (for lack of a better word) unkillable fast database server that can be > easily plugged into other programs. > > This project would help alot with a whole lot of the problems that people > have with DBMail ( DB Redundancy, Issues with DB Replication Engines ) if of > course it can be plugged into DBMail and its free... > > There are docs on its C API at : > http://www.backplane.com/docs.shtml?doc=1 > > The only problems i have see so far is : > > Only one datatype is implemented, 'varchar'. In otherwords, everything is a > string. > > We do not support UNIQUE > > ( more info at : http://www.backplane.com/docs.shtml?doc=2 ) > > Comments ? > > P > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev > --
