Sounds like this is more a DataObjects question than a DataMapper question.
Still, have you thought about mysqlproxy (or something similar) as an
intermediate connect / load-balancing point? Haven't ever explored using it
that way, but generally speaking any proxy that has a mysql-specific not
I am writing a bioinformatics tool that uses a database (MySQL) to
store and fetch data as needed. This tool is generally run on a
distributed system with over a thousand nodes, all or some of which
may be used by my tool depending on who else is using the system. The
problem is that we are not al