[Setup] ZODB Replicated Storage experiences?

[Gil Forcada Codinachs]

Hi,

No experience withe either (ZRS or relstorage) but really interested to
dive into them relatively soon (~ before end of the year) so I'm really
interested in this topic, please bring your experiences!

Cheers,
Gil



2013/8/15 Patrick Gerken <do3ccqrv at googlemail.com>

> Hi,
>
> a customer of ours has been using ZRS before it was open sourced. Two or
> three weeks ago we found an issue that forced us to stop using zrs. We are
> still waiting for feedback though. Maybe we are just doing something wrong.
> Also, we are using an old version, so we do not have blob experience.
>
> We did not notice any performance changes after we switched off
> replication. So it seems to be without performance penalties. Both servers
> are very close to each other though.
>
> The way WE set up replication, there would be still a long delay between
> failovers. I guess with the newer versions and zookeeper support you might
> be able to keep you zeo clients running when switching from master to
> secondary. I believe you still have to restart your secondary zeo server to
> use a different configuration to act as a master. Else there is no writing
> possible.
>
> I am btw. interested in your Relstorage Setup. Are you using the released
> version or the source checkout with the new features. What is the issue
> with packing? Does it take long and degrades answer times?
>
> Thanks an best regards,
>
>         Patrick
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Héctor Velarde <hector.velarde at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> as many of you may know by now, ZODB Replicated Storage (ZRS) was
>> released as open source software last May:
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/zc/zc.**zrs <https://bitbucket.org/zc/zc.zrs>
>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/**zc.zrs<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.zrs>
>>
>> according to its documentation, ZRS "provides database replication for
>> ZODB. For each database, a primary storage and one or more secondary
>> storages may be defined. The secondary storages will automatically
>> replicate data from the primary storage.
>>
>> "Replication is superior to back-ups because as long as secondaries are
>> running, secondary data is kept updated. In the event of a failure of a
>> primary storage, just reconfigure a secondary to be the primary, and it can
>> begin handling application requests."
>>
>> in the past we have been using RelStorage for high availability and
>> replication but we are not extremely happy with it because, at least on our
>> experience, on sites with lot of content creation can DB maintenance
>> (packing) can be a little bit problematic. besides that, you also have to
>> maintain 2 different technologies.
>>
>> I just finished reading the documentation and, though fortunately it does
>> not have doctest integrated, it also is not very clear, at least not for me.
>>
>> I think ZRS could be a killer feature for large, mission critical Plone
>> sites.
>>
>> does anybody here has any experience with it? any configuration examples?
>> how does a secondary storage behaves regarding blobs?
>>
>> best regards
>> --
>> Héctor Velarde
>>
>>
>>
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