"We discovered early on with cluster that we would have to redesign our application. Our DB was highly relational. Almost no data could be put on the site without data from other tables. We used a lot of joins. We learned (later) that joins in the cluster are not a good idea. Neither are sub-selects."
[runs away]
To be fair, he did then say: "So, we wrote some proof of concept scripts for our application. We were very happy. Very few issues were found. Nothing anywhere near show stopping."
I'm just not too keen on working around those little things called foreign keys, joins and such.
http://doughboy.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/five-months-with-mysql-cluster/
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Yikes...
I am evaluating database clustering solutions. At the moment I am reading the MySQL documentation. I'm very skeptical but hey, I want to give it a fair chance.
The more I read though, the scarier it looks. Here are some of the "unsupported or missing features":
# Foreign key constraints. The foreign key construct is ignored, just as it is in MyISAM tables.
# Savepoints and rollbacks. Savepoints and rollbacks to savepoints are ignored as in MyISAM.
# Durability of commits. Commits are replicated, but there is no guarantee that logs are flushed to disk on commit.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-cluster-limitations-unsupported-missing.html
On other pages we have such gems as:
# Online adding or dropping of data nodes is not currently possible. In such cases, the entire cluster must be restarted.
But they also claim MySQL gives you "99.999%" uptime, or "five 9s" uptime. How they arrived at this number is beyond me, especially if you can't add nodes (what if one machine dies and you need to replace it?).
Like I said...yikes.
The more I read though, the scarier it looks. Here are some of the "unsupported or missing features":
# Foreign key constraints. The foreign key construct is ignored, just as it is in MyISAM tables.
# Savepoints and rollbacks. Savepoints and rollbacks to savepoints are ignored as in MyISAM.
# Durability of commits. Commits are replicated, but there is no guarantee that logs are flushed to disk on commit.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-cluster-limitations-unsupported-missing.html
On other pages we have such gems as:
# Online adding or dropping of data nodes is not currently possible. In such cases, the entire cluster must be restarted.
But they also claim MySQL gives you "99.999%" uptime, or "five 9s" uptime. How they arrived at this number is beyond me, especially if you can't add nodes (what if one machine dies and you need to replace it?).
Like I said...yikes.
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