How to setup clusters

[Net Llama!]

On 08/09/03 14:10, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
>>> My personal interest is distributed applications, so a virtual 
>>> machine running a database would be good.  But we don't have the disk 
>>> space to make it worthwhile.  I hope to use more than one 
>>> configuration before we are done.
>>
>>
>> Well, there are alot of different types of databases out there, some 
>> with excellent clustering support, some without.  Oracle & DB2 have 
>> pretty decent distributed processing support.  The amount of diskspace 
>> isn't really an issue unless you plan to start dumping large chunks of 
>> data into the DB.  Otherwise, a database will remain as small as you 
>> want it to.
>>
> Most of my paid work has been Oracle where I end up using triggers and 
> stuff to accomplish what I need to get done.  I am trying to figure out 
> MySQL right now and perhaps PostgreSQL next year.  Most of my test data 
> is quite large as I need to test MANY configurations and options.

I've used mysql, postgresql & oracle, but only oracle in a cluster. 
Oracle's documentation is prolly your best bet in getting that going.  I'm 
not sure if its easily possible to setup mysql or postgresql in a 
distributed environment.

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