[wp-hackers] WordPress and MySQL Proxy

[Peter Westwood]

Stephane Daury wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Does anyone have any experience with using MySQL Proxy as a clustered 
> DB backend for WP?
> http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Proxy
>
> We're using it quite successfully for other apps, but we're wondering 
> if anyone has any experience they'd like to share before we dive in 
> trying it out for a WP farm.
>
> Also, I can't seem to remember what wordpress.com uses for DB 
> clustering/replication.
> I could have sworn Matt had mentioned something of the kind on the 
> list a few months ago, but I can't seem to craft a query that returns 
> the results I'm looking for...
>

wp.com used Hyper-DB from what I recall.

http://codex.wordpress.org/HyperDB

westi

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