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The Biggest MySQL Cluster, Ever?

Posted by Cliff on from the an-RDBMS-that-needs-a-diet dept.

ExcerLee asks: "Our team is going to build a MySQL (load-balancing and fail-over) cluster for the Cluster World Expo in the end of June. This cluster is going to have at least 10 nodes, and will use dual-opteron systems from Polywell Computers and SuSE Enterprise Linux for AMD64 from SuSE. While we are working on this hefty cluster, we wonder if this is the biggest MySQL cluster has ever been built. I googled with terms like 'biggest mysql cluster', but didn't find much." If you've run a MySQL cluster before, how large was it and how well did it perform? Krow: I have been told of much larger clusters then this; Slashdot DBs total 6 machines with 18 processors, and LiveJournal has one of the most complicated clusters I have ever seen set up.

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  1. Wow! Correct use of the Cliff Comma Subject! by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mark this day! Cliff's trademark comma actually landed in an appropriate place!
    Assuming, of course, that he was trying to sound like Fat Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons.

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  2. One Question.... by clonebarkins · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...what are you going to put in the db?

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    1. Re:One Question.... by PerlGuru · · Score: 3, Funny

      *everything*

    2. Re:One Question.... by clonebarkins · · Score: 3, Funny
      *everything*

      You forgot the evil "Mwahahahahahaha" after it!

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  3. BEOWULF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine a BEOWULF cluster of these CLUSTERS.
    Someone had to say that stupid shit. :-(

    1. Re:BEOWULF by The+Bungi · · Score: 2, Funny
      You mean something called 'Beowulf' that has something to do with clusters actually exists??

      All these years...

  4. Wow! Amazing! by FroMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    That is truly amazing. Oh, not the cluster, that doesn't sound so impressive I guess. I really don't know, I don't work with clustered databases.

    The truly amazing part is that the postgresql folks have not arrived yet.

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    1. Re:Wow! Amazing! by cperciva · · Score: 4, Funny

      The truly amazing part is that the postgresql folks have not arrived yet.

      Not at all. Postgresql is a database. This story has absolutely no connection to databases.

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