Re: Database recommendations?

Carl Lerche
Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:26:53 -0000

I''m not a fan of MySQL personally, but are you sure that migrating
over to another database system is the right choice? MySQL offers
clustering packages that do work, but they aren''t free as far as I
know.

What kind of load are you throwing at your mysql server(s)? Over here,
we got huge databases (tables that top 10+ million rows) that are
being hit with up to 1000 selects / second and 400 inserts / second.
Our mysql cluster is spread out across two datacenters.

Do you really want to migrate to another database? MySQL can probably
handle anything you throw at it performance wise if you know what you
are doing. This, of course, doesn''t change the feature set and
mysqlisms though (which I personally like to avoid).

-carl

On 2/22/07, Paul Butcher
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> We have a number of very successful RoR sites that have been up and
> running for almost a year now. We''re currently using MySQL as the
> database, but seem to be running into its limitations, particularly
> regarding it rather basic clustering support.
>
> As a result we''re thinking about moving to another database. For
obvious
> reasons, this isn''t something we want to do lightly!
>
> To that end, I''d be very grateful for any recommendations
regarding
> database engines and RoR. Are there any lurking "nasties" if we
move to
> (say) Oracle? Sybase? I''d very much welcome any advice/war stories
from
> anyone who''s made a similar switch!
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
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