[Mediawiki-l] Running MediaWiki With a MySQL Cluster

Tue Dec 6 00:15:14 UTC 2005

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?

If this can't be done, why?  What would need to be changed to allow 
hosting on a MySQL cluster to be doable?  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.

Gregory Szorc
gregory.szorc at case.edu