On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Orlando Andico <[email protected]> wrote: > This discussion is rapidly becoming irrelevant... we were originally > talking about MySQL and now see where we've ended up...
yes i know and im trying to simmer it down as you injecting more irrelevant topic as i focus more on scalability between shared-everything vs shared-nothing in technical terms as what i started with my first post... of course few are using it simply because few are having enormous workloads... > Teradata doesn't mean they use it for transactional loads. your original argument was teradata was not used for transaction at *all*.. but i prove it was capable for transactional loads too.. but you keep on injecting more irrelevant topic that this debate keeps on longer.. > No, you are reading too much into a Wikipedia entry. naahhh.. wikipedia is there for reference just like when your doing your thesis you need reference too.. your original argument who *uses* mysql clustering.. and i prove those companies are using it... but you keep on injecting another irrelevant topic to keep this debate longer.. > No, my argument was that SMP (or shared-all) can scale, to a certain > extent. And the extent of that scaling still exceeds most use case > requirements. and when time comes your requirements doesnt meet the smp scalability? as what i pointed out in my first post.. the next logical thing to do is to go mpp... this is the same true when the processing power of a cpu reaches to an atomic level.. you cant further improve that.. the next step is to go quantum processing... > Oh, so I've got an obsolete mindset now. > > Please go look up Oracle Coherence. I've been workign with it for a > couple years now. oracle acquired tangosol product in 2007 and dubbed it as oracle coherence.. coherence is a shared infrastructure.. it is an application server-level caching product.. sharing data between nodes in a cluster via ram cache for frequently used data.. it bypass oracle data buffers by sharing at the application server ... it is one of your solution that RAC for certain applications.. > True. But it's irrelevant to the original topic of this discussion > anyway. Saying "others are on it" is like saying "some people have a > Benz S500." It's irrelevant for most people. see.. now we are getting into what joebert tried to deliver here.. fooler. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

