17 April 2008 - 06:32MySQL Conference BOF
Jordan, Howard and I (the Symas contingent) were at the O'Reilly/MySQL conference for a Birds of a Feather on an OpenLDAP back-end we've been doing for MySQL. This is the first blog entry raving about it.
It was a smallish group but a great session.
three comments:
An OpenLDAP back-end for MySQL? Is this some kind of belated April fool’s joke? 
@JP Mens:
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction…
This is talking about a new backend that uses MySQL’s NDB API to talk directly to its cluster storage engine, completely bypassing the SQL layer. The cluster engine offers great data scalability just by adding more data nodes, and back-ndb provides greater throughput scalability just by adding more slapd frontends. (Any number of slapds running back-ndb can connect to the same cluster.) While back-hdb is still the best performing monolithic backend, not everyone is going to buy single-system boxes with terabytes of RAM (e.g. SGI Altix) to scale up. The back-ndb solution lets you leverage blades and such, scaling out incrementally.
@JP Mens: Nope, JP. I was cleaning up potato chips and pizza crusts off the carpet while Howard and Johan showed this stuff off to the assembled masses. I’m still not sure it improved after Howard stopped playing the fiddle but everyone seemed pretty happy.
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