[development] Wordpress HyperDB

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

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James Walker schrieb:
> Hey folks, interesting (I think) announcement in the wordpress world
> this week that we may want to keep an eye on:
> 
> http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2007-May/012893.html
> 
> They're releasing the DB class used on wordpress.com which includes some
> of the following features:
> * Replication
> * Failover
> * Redundant (public/private) networks
> * Local and remote datacenters

Not sure what is meant by this, but if it is the -h flag for mysql we've
had it for ages. ;)

> * Partitioning

I've been told partionning would be the best thing since sliced bread.

> * Different tables on different DBs

Boooooring.

> * Advanced stats for profiling

* works only with MySQL (my guess ;)

> That'd be a great list (for large-scale drupal sites) to have in our own
> abstraction layer, I think. One to keep an eye on...

David Strauss has been recently looking into replication and updating
the old patch in crackerjm's sandbox:

http://drupal.org/node/147160

People interested in this kind of feature should be looking at it and
help getting it into core.

Cheers,
	Gerhard
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