[Spock Proxy Devel] Spock proxy vs MySQL Cluster

[Jacques-Olivier G. <jog...@gm...>]

Hi
You mention on your site that
"MySQL Cluster <http://www.mysql.com/products/database/cluster/> was
designed for high availability and performance, not for sharding. All
indices and the main data are stored in main memory, which causes problems
if your combined dataset is larger than memory. It also requires changing
storage engines."

AFAIK, starting with MySQLCluster 5.1, only indexes are required to stay in
memory and support for user-defined distribution algorithms was
added.
So now - how does SpockProxy compare with this solution ? It looks to me
that putting your distribution algo (from the spock table) into
MySQL cluster would remove the need for this proxy - but I'm no expert.

                /jog