I know from talking to datastax and 10gen both that there is interest in doing this. On Sep 23, 2011 3:40 PM, "Debo Dutta (dedutta)" <dedu...@cisco.com> wrote: > This is a good idea. Actually it might be a very good idea to think of > scalable/distributed nosql engines to interface with nova and other > Openstack projects. > > > > Regards > > debo > > > > From: openstack-bounces+dedutta=cisco....@lists.launchpad.net > [mailto:openstack-bounces+dedutta=cisco....@lists.launchpad.net] On > Behalf Of Joshua Harlow > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 2:40 PM > To: openstack > Subject: [Openstack] Database replacement? > > > > Howdy all, congrats on the diablo release! > > Has there been any thought on having a nova-db service that responds to > requests for information from the db (or something like a db). > > This could be useful for companies that don't necessarily want to have a > limiting factor being a database. Since when u scale past a certain > number of compute nodes the database connections themselves may become a > bottleneck (especially the heartbeat mechanism which updates a table > every X seconds). It would be interesting if these types of request > could go to the message queue instead and then the db backing could be > swapped out with something more scalable (or still use mysql/sqlite...). > > Any thoughts? > > -Josh >
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