Bug#512172: RFP: dbslayer -- lightweight database abstraction layer suitable for high-load websites
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : dbslayer
Version : beta-12
Upstream Author : Derek Gottfrid
* URL : http://code.nytimes.com/projects/dbslayer
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: C/others
Description : lightweight database abstraction layer suitable for high-load websites
DBSlayer is a lightweight database abstraction layer suitable for high-load
websites where you need the scalable advantages of connection pooling.
Written in C for speed, DBSlayer talks to clients via JSON over HTTP,
meaning it's simple to monitor and can swiftly interoperate with any web
framework you choose.
The DBSlayer originated as an internal tool at the New York Times. The
typical LAMP strategy for scaling up data-driven applications is to
replicate slave databases to every web server, but this approach can hit
scaling limitations for high-volume websites, where processes can overwhelm
their given backend DB's connection limits. Quite frankly, we wanted to
scale the front-end webservers and backend database servers separately
without having to coordinate them. We also needed a way to flexibly
reconfigure where our backend databases were located and which applications
used them without resorting to tricks of DNS or other such "load-balancing"
hacks. Plus, it just seemed really cool to have a JSON-speaking DB layer
that all our scriptable content could talk to. Thus, the DBSlayer was born.
-- System Information:
Architecture: i386
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