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[Cole <coleton@xxxxxxxxx>]

I know from talking to datastax and 10gen both that there is interest in
doing this.
On Sep 23, 2011 3:40 PM, "Debo Dutta (dedutta)" <dedutta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is a good idea. Actually it might be a very good idea to think of
> scalable/distributed nosql engines to interface with nova and other
> Openstack projects.
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> Regards
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> debo
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> From: openstack-bounces+dedutta=cisco.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:openstack-bounces+dedutta=cisco.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Joshua Harlow
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 2:40 PM
> To: openstack
> Subject: [Openstack] Database replacement?
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> Howdy all, congrats on the diablo release!
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> Has there been any thought on having a nova-db service that responds to
> requests for information from the db (or something like a db).
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> This could be useful for companies that don't necessarily want to have a
> limiting factor being a database. Since when u scale past a certain
> number of compute nodes the database connections themselves may become a
> bottleneck (especially the heartbeat mechanism which updates a table
> every X seconds). It would be interesting if these types of request
> could go to the message queue instead and then the db backing could be
> swapped out with something more scalable (or still use mysql/sqlite...).
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> Any thoughts?
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> -Josh
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