On Thursday 22 September 2005 04:07, Øystein Grøvlen wrote: > >>>>> "JAC" == James A Craig/O/VCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JAC> Hi, I'm fairly new to Derby but I was curious if its possible > JAC> to use it in a distributed setup. I currently have a small > JAC> cluster and want to set it up so that I have a distributed > JAC> database on it using Derby. So my questions are: > > JAC> > > JAC> 1) Is this possible? > > It is a bit unclear to me what you mean by using it in a distributed > setup. Do you just want to access the database from all nodes of the > cluster, or do you actually want for performance reasons a single > distributed database which runs on all nodes. The first part is > possible and is called a network server, the latter is not. The rest > of my answers will assume that you want to be able to access a > single-node database server from other nodes. >
I can understand your confusion. At first it looks like he wants to create an HADR setup using Derby. But in a later question, he used the term distributed meaning remote.... Assuming that he wants to do HADR and not create a parallelized engine, I think that there is some merit to this. > JAC> 5) Can I use ij to manipulate a distributed database? How do I do > this? > (This is the question that I was referencing above.) -- Michael Segel Principal MSCC (312) 952-8175
