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On Sep 10, 2013, at 6:01 AM, Brian Aker <brian at tangent.org> wrote:

> Hi!
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> On Sep 9, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Michael Basnight <mbasnight at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sep 9, 2013, at 8:38 AM, Clint Byrum wrote:
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>>> Perhaps: "Trove is designed to support a multi-user database for a single
>>> OpenStack tenant within a Nova instance."
>> 
>> +1. Very succinct, and it does remove ambiguity. Giuseppe, feel free to update the wiki to reflect this, and help remove ambiguity in other areas. Thank you Clint and Giuseppe.
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> Let me be a little nit-picky.
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> Trove when mapped to other RDBMS then MySQL may actually create multiple "DATABASES". 
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> MySQL maps "CREATE DATABASE" to "CREATE SCHEMA" and Trove has inherited this inconsistency. A number of other RDBMS have both of these implemented and I would expect that they will call "CREATE DATABASE" instead.
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> It would be more accurate to say that Trove supports the creation of "DBMS" systems (though frankly some of the NO-SQL solutions don't fit that definition due to their lack of data integrity). 
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> Additionally I would drop the "multi-user" part since some of the proposed implementations lack "users" as well.
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> Trove is a service that handles the maintenance, provisioning, etc… of DBMS systems. 
> 

Very good points. I've been in many a meeting trying to explain what Brian just wrote. Ill be sure to add all this to the wiki today. Thank you Brian. 

> Cheers,
>    -Brian
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