Hello Bruce,
You wrote:
I am still feeling that data partitioning is like master/slave
replication because you have to get that read-only copy to the other
server.
Yes, that's where replication comes into play. But data partitioning per
se has nothing to do with replication, has it? You
Good morning Hannu,
Hannu Krosing wrote:
People do that in cases where there is high write loads (high as in
not 10+ times less than reads) and just replicating the RO copies
would be prohibitively expensive in either network, cpu or memory terms.
Okay. It that case it's even less like any
Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
Not mentioning that categorization doesn't help in clearing the
confusion. Just look around, most people use these terms. They're used
by MySQL and Oracle. Even Microsofts ActiveDirectory seems to have a
multi-master operation mode.
OK.
For example, Slony is
