Re: [gentoo-server] MySQL-4.1 and <- Max

[Kashani]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Sancho2k.net Lists wrote:

> Another thing - MySQL's new cluster'd server technology (appropriately
> named MySQL Cluster) is available in the MySQL Max distribution. (For
> those who don't know, Max is basically the same thing as the standard
> MySQL server package, along with some not-quite-ready for common use
> functionality like the BDB table handler and such.) Now, MySQL-4.1.7 is
> available and the Max release has the Cluster components packaged in;
> has anything like the Max thing ever been available in Portage? It looks
> like the mysql ebuild is simply the standard Server package. Having a
> Max package would be nice in order to get ahold of the MySQL Cluster
> components.

	I was interested in their cluster product until I read the fine
print. Your clustered database has to fit entirely into RAM on each
machine in the cluster. While this is actually useful for a number of
things like authenticating users, it's a major limitation if you want 
general clustering and have databases larger than 2GB. 

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/MySQL_Cluster_DB_Definition.html under 
DataMemory

kashani