[Typo3-dev] RfC: Making DBAL more flexible and scalable

[tapio]

Michael Scharkow wrote:
> Martin Kutschker wrote:
> 
>> Have you tried a Mysql cluster? AFAIK it should handle such 
>> situations. I don't know if there is a cluster available for PostgreSQL.
> 
> 
> As I wrote, MySQL cluster has some serious drawbacks for large databases 
> (which we are talking about anyway): The main issue is that it's 
> memory-only, i.e. you need *loads* of RAM for big databases. Moreover, 
> data loss is to be expected on crashes, etc.

could be avoided if saving data would have transaction and instead of 
myIdam InnoDB would be used. Transactions are not needed for rendering 
www-pages but they would also use then InnoDB. What InnoDB >< MyIsam in 
general. Using transactions and InnoDB would cause much work!