> he doesn't want the overhead, dependencies and worries of anything like an external DB with a DBA, etc... . He also wants this to be fast.
So they're trading consistency concerns for ... not having a central db? Even if your shop requires a DBA for any DB, it sounds like a really bad deal. Jim On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 1:18 PM, David Gauthier <davegauthie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > I'm going to throw this internal customer request out for ideas, even > though I think it's a bit crazy. I'm on the brink of telling him it's > impractical and/or inadvisable. But maybe someone has a solution. > > He's writing a script/program that runs on a workstation and needs to > write data to a DB. This process also sends work to a batch system on a > server farm external to the workstation that will create multiple, parallel > jobs/processes that also have to write to the DB as well. The workstation > may have many of these jobs running at the same time. And there are 58 > workstation which all have/use locally mounted disks for this work. > > At first blush, this is easy. Just create a DB on a server and have all > those clients work with it. But he's also adamant about having the DB on > the same server(s) that ran the script AND on the locally mounted disk. He > said he doesn't want the overhead, dependencies and worries of anything > like an external DB with a DBA, etc... . He also wants this to be fast. > > My first thought was SQLite. Apparently, they now have some sort of > multiple, concurrent write ability. But there's no way those batch jobs on > remote machines are going to be able to get at the locally mounted disk on > the workstation. So I dismissed that idea. Then I thought about having 58 > PG installs, one per workstation, each serving all the jobs pertaining to > that workstation. That could work. But 58 DB instances ? If he didn't > like the ideal of one DBA, 58 can't be good. Still, the DB would be on the > workstation which seems to be what he wants. > > I can't think of anything better. Does anyone have any ideas? > > Thanks in Advance ! > >
