On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Benedikt Heinen wrote:

>
> I'm currently looking for a data storage backend for a little pet project of
> mine. The catch is - two systems are running the software and need to be
> able to access data (r/w), and it needs to continue function, if either of
> the two goes down (i.e. just putting a DB on one of the two isn't going to
> help).
>
> It doesn't need to be ultra-high performance or anything (peak load would
> likely be around a dozen accesses a minute).
>
> So far I've looked at postgres (and pg_cluster), which doesn't seem to 
> fail-over/recover all that well.
>
> Mysql clusters seem to need three hosts (I'm stuck with two).
>
>
> So, does anyone know of a free DB that could handle this?
>
>
> Alternatively - does rinda offer persistence / fault-tolerance?
>
> ....any other contenders?    (doesn't need to be sql; the data structures are 
> not too complex)

are your two processes on the same machine?

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