On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 09:10:35PM -0500, Nulik Nol wrote: <snip> > I have searched quickly what database engine supports asynchronous io > and found quite a lot of good projects, one of them called Redis, it > is a sort of replacement for memcachedb. Nice stuff! Check it out: > http://redis.io/ > > I think I am going to discard MySQL and go for using Berkeley DB, I > can design specialized data fetches (sort if implementing my own > database server optimized for my app) completely in-memory with > occasional replication to disk. Like Redis. > Even though Berkeley DB still doesn't support non-blocking read/write > it makes sense to spend some time on writing thread functions for it > than coding the same on top of SQL, would it be MySQL, PostgreSQL or > whatever. I didn't test it yet, but seems like I could get about 2x to > 3x speed up this way on all data fetches. >
FWIW, the PostgreSQL C client API works non-blocking. It's quite well designed. *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
