Cluster performance in web environment

[Jonathan Haddad]

Has anyone on the list set up cluster for use in a web environment?  How
does the performance compare to innodb for selects based off an index?

How well does cluster perform with a lot of mixed reads / writes?  (say 20
to 1?)  If a table is constantly having rows inserted, are there any locking
issues we should be aware of?  Usually we deal with this by  partitioning
our tables into multiple machines.  Is this necessary anymore?

Initially, there won't be much on here, but I'm expecting it to be running
this on 6x 16GB dual core boxes for the  data nodes - will 1 table with 500
million rows and several hundred concurrent selects / inserts per second be
an issue?

Thanks,
Jon
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Jon Haddad
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