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So, this is a Xen VPS (Amazon uses Xen as far as I remeber) with a MySQL 5.6 database, with a custom storage engine that stores data in some Dynamo-based stora
by dschiptsov 12y ago
So, this is a Xen VPS (Amazon uses Xen as far as I remeber) with a MySQL 5.6 database, with a custom storage engine that stores data in some Dynamo-based storage. Any code could access it via MySQL protocol (bindings to libmysqlclient.so). Fine.
- jakozaur 12y agoI appreciate your technical insight, but glueing those technologies together is far from trivial. Making it easily to manage and reliable is even harder. I trust your best intention, but even Dropbox was dismissed on HN as user-friendly rsync.
- dschiptsov 12y agoOK, perhaps they wrote a MySQL-Dynamo (or whatever it is) wire-protocol translation engine, and do not use MySQL server. But custom storage engine looks like most natural way. We will see it shortly.)
- arnehormann 12y agoMariaDB enabled Cassandra as a storage engine: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/documentation/storage-engines/cassandra/cassandra-storage-engine-overview/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/documentation/storage-engi...