Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-06 Thread Tim McDonough
Henri Salo wrote: On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 11:07:10PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: "distributed database", "database replication" Thank you to all. Now that I am looking down the right path I have plenty of material to read. Tim This is very good book of the subject. http://www.cs.ualberta.

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-05 17:04, Henri Salo wrote: On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 11:07:10PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: "distributed database", "database replication" Thank you to all. Now that I am looking down the right path I have plenty of material to read. Tim This is very good book of the subject. ht

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-06 Thread Henri Salo
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 11:07:10PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: >>> "distributed database", "database replication" > > Thank you to all. Now that I am looking down the right path I have > plenty of material to read. > > Tim This is very good book of the subject. http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~databa

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-05 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: glynast...@yahoo.co.uk >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, >koffiejunkielistlur...@koffiejunkie.za.net >Subject: Re: Big Database Server General Question >Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 16:13:19 + (GMT) > >> >>--- On S

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-05 Thread Glyn Astill
--- On Sun, 5/4/09, kj wrote: > > Of course, this requires competent designers > Absolutely. Sadly, I spend a great deal of my time trying > to work miracles with the db to compensate for developers > who don't know what they're doing and doesn't > want to learn. I feel ya there. Same here

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-05 Thread kj
Ron Johnson wrote: Absolutely. Sadly, I spend a great deal of my time trying to work miracles with the db to compensate for developers who don't know what they're doing and doesn't want to learn. Argh. Don't *even* get me started on that topic!!! On the other hand, if it wasn't for cluele

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-05 06:12, kj wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Proper system design obviates the need for the complexity of a distributed system. In an era of Quad Xeons and 32GB RAM. replication should only be needed for HA. True, but for systems like the OP mentioned (google, wikipedia, etc), which use

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-05 Thread kj
Ron Johnson wrote: Proper system design obviates the need for the complexity of a distributed system. In an era of Quad Xeons and 32GB RAM. replication should only be needed for HA. True, but for systems like the OP mentioned (google, wikipedia, etc), which use the database more for storage th

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-04 Thread Tim McDonough
"distributed database", "database replication" Thank you to all. Now that I am looking down the right path I have plenty of material to read. Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-04 Thread John Hasler
Tim McDonough wrote: > I'm asking this question to find out what keywords to search for, not > really looking for a specific answer here. When there is a huge database > involved with a lot of users and lots of data it isn't done all with one > computer and a fast connection. "distributed databas

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-04 18:38, John Hasler wrote: Tim McDonough wrote: I'm asking this question to find out what keywords to search for, not really looking for a specific answer here. When there is a huge database involved with a lot of users and lots of data it isn't done all with one computer and a fas

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-04 18:11, ow...@netptc.net wrote: [snip] If you're just interested in how things work, a rather unique approach is that used by Terradata (now sold a couple of times), based on a Cal Tech PhD thesis by Phil Neches. Dedicated database machines with circuits hardwired for relational

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-04 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: ron.l.john...@cox.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Big Database Server General Question >Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:13:49 -0500 > >>On 2009-04-04 15:34, Tim McDonough wrote: >>> I'm asking th

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-04 15:34, Tim McDonough wrote: I'm asking this question to find out what keywords to search for, not really looking for a specific answer here. When there is a huge database involved with a lot of users and lots of data it isn't done all with one computer and a fast connection. Su

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-04 Thread Robert Baron
Could you be refering to distributed systems? On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Tim McDonough wrote: > I'm asking this question to find out what keywords to search for, not > really looking for a specific answer here. > > When there is a huge database involved with a lot of users and lots of data

Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-04 Thread Tim McDonough
I'm asking this question to find out what keywords to search for, not really looking for a specific answer here. When there is a huge database involved with a lot of users and lots of data it isn't done all with one computer and a fast connection. I'm generally interested in how requests direc