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> On 4/23/14, 3:24 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > List:
> >> Are there any plans or existing projects that support connecting Postfix
> >> to a Cassandra cluster to execute CQL queries for table lookups? Or any
> >> other NoSQL databases?
> > If someone has a plan, then they are welcome to implement it!
> >
> > For a simple example see util/dict_env.c. For more advanced see
> > global/dict_ldap.c or dict_mysql.c.
> >
> > Wietse
> >
>
> If I had the programming chops I would love to contribute. I am
> curious, is anyone here even interested in using NoSQL databases for
> lookup tables?
It could help to make Postfix scalable. I added memcached support
a year or so ago to enable sharing between hosts in the same network.
The next step would be to enable sharing between data centers.
Wietse
> In our use case we have an email system distributed
> between multiple data centers currently using Cassandra to store
> stateful information across all the DC's about SASL attempts, failed
> logins, sender/recipient counts, etc. for our homegrown policy server.
> It would be great to roll all of our user/alias mappings, policy tables,
> and other data points to Cassandra to get rid of MySQL master/slave
> which is considerably more work to maintain. It seems to us that NoSQL
> is a great fit for the kind of key=value looks ups that Postfix and
> other MUA's implement, just not sure if anyone else feels the same.
>
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