Re: Looking for a bona fide distributed database that is open source

[gerald_clark]

No, it is not distributed.

Bruce Feist wrote:

Gelu Gogancea wrote:

To anyone that *didn't see the forest because of the trees*.

You already find it.

Is MySQL really distributed, or just client-server?  I've seen no 
indication of distributed capabilities; I'm new to MySQL, so maybe I 
just haven't read enough.  But a distributed DBMS should be able to 
execute a single query which transparently accesses multiple database 
installations on multiple computers, possibly on multiple platforms. 
For instance,

SELECT * from a, b ON a.id = b.id;

where table 'a' is in a database on a Windows/2000 computer and table 
'b' is on a Linux machine.  The DBMS should keep track of which table 
is in which database on which computer, and its optimizer should be 
capable of figuring out an efficient way of resolving such queries.

Can MySQL do that?

Bruce Feist




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