[openstack-dev] [marconi] Decoupling backend drivers

Flavio Percoco flavio at redhat.com
Fri Jun 27 07:31:23 UTC 2014


On 26/06/14 15:10 +0000, Kurt Griffiths wrote:
>Crew, I’d like to propose the following:
>
> 1. Decouple pool management from data storage (two separate drivers)
> 2. Keep pool management driver for sqla, but drop the sqla data storage driver
> 3. Provide a non-AGPL alternative to MongoDB that has feature parity and is at
>    least as performant
>
>Decoupling will make configuration less confusing, while allowing us to
>maintain drivers separately and give us the flexibility to choose the best tool
>for the job (BTFJ). Once that work is done, we can drop support for sqla  as a
>message store backend, since it isn’t a viable non-AGPL alternative to MongoDB.
>Instead, we can look into some other backends that offer a good mix of
>durability and performance. 
>
>What does everything think about this strategy?

+1 for the above. Lets make it a blueprint and start working on it.
The sooner we remove sqlalchemy as a message store, the less confused
people will be.

As for the viable non-AGPL alternative, I'll start a new thread with a
list of possible options.

Flavio

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