From: Francis Hwang <sera@...>
Date: 2005-01-24T08:20:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Lafcadio 0.7.0, 0.6.1: Excessively Clever Query Caching


On Jan 22, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Shashank Date wrote:

> Hi Francis,
>
>> Intriguing stuff. Once you've set this up in MS SQL
>> 2k, what requirements are there for a client to
>> manage them? I mean, besides what the database
>> takes care of for you automatically.
>
> Umm .... mantaining the indexes comes to mind. I don't
> know the details since we never actually used it as it
> comes out of the box. We found out that the queries
> were not being executed in parallel. Hence we wrote
> our own version (in Ruby of course) and called it
> "parallel query dispatcher" :-)

So are you saying that the data came naturally partitioned, and you 
left it partitioned, and then used Ruby to analyze queries and dispatch 
them to the right database transparently? I suppose I could use a 
concrete example to help me grok this.

Francis Hwang
http://fhwang.net/