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Open Source Database Clusters?

Posted by Cliff on from the prime-time-league-contenders-yet? dept.

grugruto asks: "A lot of open source solutions are available to scale web sites with clusters but what about databases? I can't afford an Oracle RAC license but can I have something more reliable and fault tolerant than my single Postgres box? I have seen this recent article that looks promising for open source solutions. Do anyone have experiences with clusters of MySQL , Postgres-R, C-JDBC or other solutions? How does it compare to commercial products?"

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  1. Err... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Open Sores software will never have the stabilty and features of its commercial counterparts - To do so would go against the whole point of open sorse (Copy a commercial software (via source or functionality), and do a 1/2 arse job of it).

    Use Oracle.

  2. Clusters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Funny, it looks like many don't even know what a cluster is. Some even mention replication as some sort of clustering. :)
    The only real clustering technology to speak of is OpenVMS clusters.