[Gluster-users] not support so called “structured data”

Strahil Nikolov
Thu, 02 Apr 2020 04:27:59 -0000

On April 2, 2020 5:24:39 AM GMT+03:00, "sz_cuitao at 163.com"
<sz_cuitao at 163.com> wrote:
>Document point out:
>Gluster does not support so called ?structured data?, meaning live, SQL
>databases. Of course, using Gluster to backup and restore the database
>would be fine.
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>What? Not,support!
>I had a test to run Oracle database on KVM/Ovirt/Gluster,it works
>well,in fact.
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>But why docs says not support ? It measn not suggest or not to use ?
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>sz_cuitao at 163.com

I don't know why this is written ,  but when I checked this doc:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_gluster_storage/3.1/html/console_installation_guide/add_database_server_to_rhgs-c

it seems pretty legid workload (no matter postgres, mysql, mariadb,
oracle,hana,etc)   .

The only thing that comes to my mind is that usually DBs are quite valuable and
thus a 'replica 3' volume or a 'replica 3 arbiter 1' volume
should be used and a different set of options are needed  (compared  to other
workloads).

Best Regards,
Strahil Nikolov