Re: multimaster

Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 11:50:09AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> What you are basically saying below is... web 2.0 developers such as
>> rails developers have so fundamentally broken the way it is supposed to
>> be done, we should too...
>
> I don't know that's all there is to it. After all, we support arrays
> in the database, which ought to make any relational purist shudder.
> It seems to me that there _are_ legitimate limits to single-back-end
> approaches, even for well designed systems, and being able to spread
> some of that load around would be a big advantage.

I am not arguing against balancing load. I am arguing against the idea
that multi-master is some holy grail.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> I just don't want
> to do it without thinking hard about what the compromises might be,
> and figuring out which ones to make. "Breaks transactional model",
> for instance, is right out :)
>
> A
>

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