Hey Everyone,
I'm looking for some advice. I am developing an application that will
have several million transaction records. I've heard of people scaling
Rails to connect to multiple databases. I have never done this, and
I'm wondering if rails can look at multiple databases and treat them
as one, or if I design some sort of overload feature that makes it
trickle from one database to the next. In essence I don't want my
rails application to be limited by database capability or size. As I
said before I have never designed an app like this, and I want to get
it right before I get too far into the application. I have just
started the coding, and would like to be proactive on making the right
decision.
Thanks!
Chris
You’ll probably want
to look at replication [1] and/or sharding. There are several gems out
there that will help you do one, the other, or both within Rails. I
haven’t used any of them, but some quick googling seem to indicate that
data_fabric [2] or masochism [3] might be good places to start.
While googling I also ran across MySQL’s HA/Scalability Guide which
looks useful if this is something new to you.
dwh
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internetchris wrote:
I appreciate your replys, I will look into PostgreSQL a little futher.
A post from yesterday indicated alot of success with PostgreSQL, so I
will probably go with it. One other thing..
I'm pretty new to rails, and this question may seem ridiculous, but I
must ask. If I keep my fields the same in my migration, and simply
change my database.yml file will my views and controllers still work
fine? I haven't done alot of development on this app yet, but anytime
I can avoid rewriting code it's nice.
Thanks!
Chris