Roman Rokytskyy wrote:

>> Perhaps, perhaps not.
>>
>> - How will you partition the data? Is this a user/dba decision or is it
>> something the software does by itself?
>>
>
> I would go for the auto-configuring software, though it is not trivial.
> I would replicate data sets on at least three nodes, so that when one
> node goes down, two others can still serve the request.
>
>

You have come close to describing the MySQL Ndb/cluster product, except
that partitioning is user/dba specified by hash, range, or discrete values.

It is not a wildly successful product. There are use cases where it is
a very good fit, but they are rare and far between outside of the telco
market.

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