Re: High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication Feature Matrix

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Markus Schiltknecht <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication Feature Matrix
Date: 2007-11-19 21:21:10
Message-ID: 200711192121.lAJLLAi07431@momjian.us
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Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> Eh.. I think you misunderstood. The Sequoia people use RAIDb to mean
> Redundant Array of Inexpensive _Databases_. A possible setup might look
> like:

You are right. I didn't understand that. Interesting.

> > I am afraid we are stuck between clarity and understand-ability here. ;-)
>
> Agreed, but that's where I think the current chapter creates confusion
> by trying to separate into "statement based replication middleware" and
> "synchronous multi-master replication". Such a separation does not
> exist, instead every combination of single vs. multi-master and
> statement based vs tuple based is possible. Examples:
>
> single-master, tuple based: Slony-I, Mammoth Replicator
> multi-master, tuple based: Postgres-R, Slony-II, maybe Bucardo (?)
> single-master, statement based: maybe pgpool or skytools can do that (?)
> multi-master, statement based: Sequoia, PgCluster

Uh, to me the issue is something like pgpool and Sequoia, where the
_master_/replication is happening _outside_ the server, vs something
like Oracle RAC where it is happening inside the server.

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