Hi!
Well, obviously BigTable depends on GFS, now that
I'm looking at
it, but
it's not a "we could use GFS for GFS'es sake" situation, unless I
am missing
something.
If BigTable (whatever it is) would be some magic silver bullet,
Google would not use InnoDB or MySQL or whatever.
And as I mentioned, BigTable seems not useful as
long as our
indexes fit in
RAM, which I hope is the case.
We have few hundred gigabytes of RAM available in cluster. I hope we
fit. :)
The DB clusters are systems running slave copies of the same master MySQL
databases; what matters is RAM per system (or, per database)....
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-george william herbert
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