On 08/24/2018 11:18 AM, David Gauthier wrote:
> Hi Everyone:
>
> I'm going to throw this internal customer request out for ideas, even
> though I think it's a bit crazy. I'm on the brink of telling him it's
> impractical and/or inadvisable. But maybe someone has a solution.
>
> He's writing a script/program that runs on a workstation and needs to
> write data to a DB. This process also sends work to a batch system on a
> server farm external to the workstation that will create multiple,
> parallel jobs/processes that also have to write to the DB as well. The
> workstation may have many of these jobs running at the same time. And
> there are 58 workstation which all have/use locally mounted disks for
> this work.
>
> At first blush, this is easy. Just create a DB on a server and have all
> those clients work with it. But he's also adamant about having the DB
> on the same server(s) that ran the script AND on the locally mounted
> disk. He said he doesn't want the overhead, dependencies and worries of
> anything like an external DB with a DBA, etc... . He also wants this to
> be fast.
> My first thought was SQLite. Apparently, they now have some sort of
> multiple, concurrent write ability. But there's no way those batch jobs
> on remote machines are going to be able to get at the locally mounted
> disk on the workstation. So I dismissed that idea. Then I thought about
> having 58 PG installs, one per workstation, each serving all the jobs
> pertaining to that workstation. That could work. But 58 DB instances
> ? If he didn't like the ideal of one DBA, 58 can't be good. Still, the
> DB would be on the workstation which seems to be what he wants.
> I can't think of anything better. Does anyone have any ideas?
So are the 58 database(stores) on the workstation going to be working
with data independent to each or is the data shared/synced between
instances?
>
> Thanks in Advance !
>
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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
