On 4/25/07, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A co-worker sent this to me, thought I'd pass it along here. We do tons of failover/replication and would be eager to see mySQL implment the Google patches in the stock distribution. If anyone needs mission critical, scaleable, and failover clusters, it's Google -- so I have every confidence their patches are solid and worthy of inclusion...
This isn't surprising for Google. They've done the same thing to Linux. I don't know much about Google's infrastructure these days, but several years ago they had a server farm of about 2,000 identical x86 Linux machines serving out search requests. Each machine had a local hard disk containing the most recent copy of the search database. Because of the volume of identical machines, reliability was critical, and Google had a certain flavor of the Linux kernel that they had tested and tuned. I wouldn't be surprised to see Google do the same thing with MySQL. For use internally, they would make some tweaks. What are they using MySQL for? Any massively parallel deployments?
