[Opensim-dev] switch gears a bit, thoughts on the state of the database in OpenSim

[Sean Dague]

Melanie wrote:
> I believe that the individual drivers approach should not be dropped.
> Any abstraction/generalization would of necessity forgo performance 
> enhancing database features and would therefore be detrimental to 
> the scaling behavior down the road.
> 
> For databases off the beaten track, we could possibly provide a 
> generic or abstracted driver, but, IMHO, a very specific, high 
> performance MySQL driver needs to stay as part of OpenSim.
> 
> That said, the current one isn't really all that high performance, 
> but that is where it needs improving.

Yeh, that's the direction I'm leaning at this point as well.  And part
of my thoughts on a short term goal of making what we have right now
better, as the benefit to our user community would be substantial.

And, as our data sets get much larger the db side of things is going to
start showing up as part of our performance bottlenecks.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague / Neas Bade
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http://dague.net


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