[openstack-dev] [all][oslo.db][nova] TL; DR Things everybody should know about Galera

Avishay Traeger avishay at stratoscale.com
Thu Feb 5 06:19:53 UTC 2015


On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>
wrote:

> On 5 February 2015 at 10:24, Joshua Harlow <harlowja at outlook.com> wrote:
> > How interesting,
> >
> > Why are people using galera if it behaves like this? :-/
>
> Because its actually fairly normal. In fact its an instance of point 7
> on https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/BasicDesignTenets - one of our
> oldest wiki pages :).
>

When I hear MySQL I don't exactly think of eventual consistency (#7),
scalability (#1), horizontal scalability (#4), etc.
For the past few months I have been advocating implementing an alternative
to db/sqlalchemy, but of course it's a huge undertaking.  NoSQL (or even
distributed key-value stores) should be considered IMO.  Just some food for
thought :)


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