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Certainly it is possible to engineer a hot standby solution for MySQL databases using DRBD, or synchronous replication etc. There's a choice between engineerin
by justinsb 15y ago
Certainly it is possible to engineer a hot standby solution for MySQL databases using DRBD, or synchronous replication etc. There's a choice between engineering an endless series of fixes like that, or re-examining the problem space and building a new database. After years of doing the former, we chose to examine the latter, and we're seeing good indications from that approach.
- jacques_chester 15y agoI have misgivings because you are not the first to try and re-examine the problem space. A lot of the endless series of fixes have arisen from just such attempts. I want you to succeed, but you're dealing with seriously hairy deep magic issues that the best minds in the industry and academia have been chipping away at for decades.
- justinsb 15y agoA healthy skepticism, then: nothing wrong with that. It's a speculative project with a big payoff if it succeeds, and I wouldn't ask you to believe until we've shown a working product. Your good wishes are appreciated though!