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Author Re: idea for a geographically distributed database: how best
Achilleus Mantzios

2005-11-17, 11:23 am

O codeWarrior έγραψε στις Nov 17, 2005 :

> Sounds like a mis-guided approach to me...
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> You might want to consider using latitude and longitude or zip codes or
> taking more of a traditional "GIS" approach rather than duplicating data
> across redundant databases.
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> Another issue is that you end up having to query every database to find
> proximity... Suppose you have 500 "cells" ? You now have to invoke some sort
> of RPC mechanism on 499 other RDBMS, manage 500 user names and passwords,
> retrieve potentially 500 recordsets, merge the data, etc...
>
> Your problems will continue to get more and more complex... You are better
> off with a single RDBMS and a single schema...


Andy, i agree with what codeWarrior says.
But if you are interested in replication, dbmirror is very elegant
(altho not as trendy) simple, and highly customizable replication
solution.

I have heavily modified dbmirror to even support
Asynchronous Conditional row grained
Foreign key dependency Traversal oriented
Lazy Replication!!!
(which ofcourse nobody wants :)

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Andy Ballingall

2005-11-17, 11:23 am



>Andy, i agree with what codeWarrior says.

But if you are interested in replication, dbmirror is very elegant
(altho not as trendy) simple, and highly customizable replication
solution.

I have heavily modified dbmirror to even support
Asynchronous Conditional row grained
Foreign key dependency Traversal oriented
Lazy Replication!!!
(which ofcourse nobody wants :)


I'll go and check it out, so even if I don't want to use it, I'll at least
know what it means!

(I considered suggesting using an acronym for it, but 'ACRGFKDTOLR' made my
lips bleed when I tried to say it).

Thanks,
Andy


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