It certainly is less appealing after reading that. I've only read a limited amount about how it functions. Thank you for pointing that out Perrin.
-Jeremy > -----Original Message----- > From: Perrin Harkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:33 AM > To: Jeremy Brooks > Cc: 'Ken Perl'; modperl@perl.apache.org > Subject: RE: clusters > > On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 11:28 -0500, Jeremy Brooks wrote: > > There's also clustering in MySQL 5 that looks very enticing > to me as > > an additional layer or scale out and redundancy. It's not your > > typical master/slave scenario and actaully allows for real load > > balancing and failover. > > It's a pretty limited system, as described here: > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-cluster-limitations.html > > No referential integrity and no disk storage (!) are the main > issues for me. It might be okay for transient data that you > don't care about losing if the power goes out. > > - Perrin
