Re: Justifying a PG over MySQL approach to a project - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject Re: Justifying a PG over MySQL approach to a project
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Msg-id 012a92bb292c85e89a61b8530182776c@biglumber.com
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In response to Re: Justifying a PG over MySQL approach to a project  (Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>)
Responses Re: Justifying a PG over MySQL approach to a project  ("Gauthier, Dave" <dave.gauthier@intel.com>)
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> - MySQL is horizontally scalable via clustering and multi-master
> replication (though you must beware of numerous gotchas). PostgreSQL can
> be used with read-only slaves via Slony/Bucardo/etc replication, but is
> limited to a single authoriative master.
>
> (There's work ongoing to enable readonly hot standby slaves with
> failover, but no multi-master is on the horizion).

Well that's refreshing: usually Bucardo is mistaken for a system that
only does master-master and not master-slave, rather than vice-versa. :)
You can have two authoritative masters with Bucardo, in addition to
any number of slaves radiating from one or both of those (as well as
just simple master->slaves).

> - It's a cool tool when you want to query and integrate data from all
> sorts of disparate sources, thanks to its support for pluggable storage
> engines. If you want something for data analysis and integration rather
> than safe storage it's well worth looking at.

What sort of sources? I'm curious here to find areas we can improve upon.

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