[openstack-dev] [nova] FKs in the DB

Julien Danjou julien at danjou.info
Fri Nov 20 16:52:59 UTC 2015


On Fri, Nov 20 2015, Alexis Lee wrote:

> We just had a fun discussion in IRC about whether foreign keys are evil.
> Initially I thought this was crazy but mordred made some good points. To
> paraphrase, that if you have a scale-out app already it's easier to
> manage integrity in your app than scale-out your persistence layer.

That's interesting. Could you explain how it is easier to achieve the
level of data integrity provided by a RDBMS implementing ACID in your
own application?

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Julien Danjou
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