Gregory Szorc wrote:
I would like to operate a MediaWiki installation that
has two points of
failure instead of the one that you get with a MySQL master/slave setup.
Is it possible to run MediaWiki using a MySQL cluster as its database
storage engine?
Last I heard, MySQL Cluster doesn't support large text/blob fields, which we use
for text storage.
You might be able to put some tables in Cluster and the rest in InnoDB or
MyISAM. Try it and report back. :)
If it can be done, what are
the drawbacks to doing it and why doesn't WikiPedia operate a MySQL
cluster instead of a master/slave replication setup.
Also, having a couple hundred gigabytes of RAM would be very expensive. :D
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)