On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Mark Struberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> This can also be very helpful to 'scale out' in case you need performance: > > All write stuff is only performed on the master node, but expensive > queries/searches might be performed on the n replication nodes. Of course > this needs a special handling in your app, but allows to move the expensive > queries away from your primary node. > hmmm, had a question or two, or seeking clarification (or a bit more details or even a reference to a blog/article/document). 1. scale-out usually mean different physical servers? scaling out multiple databases on one physical server, usually (or I would assume) means that the hard drive becomes the bottleneck, if hard drive contain multiple databases. right? 2. hmmm, had another question, if I remember it, then I can ask it later.
