[wp-hackers] MUlti-DB setup - An alternative approach that i handled.

technocraze technocraze at gmail.com
Thu Apr 2 17:38:24 GMT 2009


> There is a plugin available that would probably be a better way of
> handling this (since it doesn't involve hacking the core code at all).
>
> WordPress.com uses it, so it's known to handle millions of
> users/blogs. Oh, and it has a really cool name :) HyperDB!
>
> http://codex.wordpress.org/HyperDB
>
> HTH
>   
Thanks ..  based on my experience, the number of changes in core code is 
very few, straight forward and spans around three files...   also, the 
hyperDB might fail when we use complex queries in our plugin, like 
unions etc..


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