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Cole Tuininga wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 09:35 -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote: >> MySQL actually has a 'clustering' mode, where you can set up active >> replication (hot-backups). The basic gist of it is that one node is the >> master, and all 'update' operations have to be done through it, and incur >> extra overhead (since the transaction isn't complete until all replicas have >> the change). 'Query' (ie non-modifying) types of operations can be done on >> any of the replicas, IIRC. > > Careful with terminology here. What you are describing is indeed called > 'replication' in MySQL land, but 'clustering' is an entirely different > thing: > > http://www.mysql.com/products/database/cluster/
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