Cloud computing: scalable DB

[Brian Yennie]

Andre,

If you mean by this that the bottleneck is READ access for sending the emails, would replication be an option? You could set up a second slave DB which shouldn't affect WRITE much unless you are already saturated on that end as well. Then when you need that burst of data, just alternate (or some smarter load balancing) between the two machines. READ access can scale close to linearly that way with a pretty simple setup. Now, if you are running out of WRITE capacity, that's a harder problem...

HTH?

> Now, here our bottleneck is actually the database machine. It can't pump out
> the data as fast as we need it. There are also other design bottlenecks, but
> the email sending part is not one of them.