Re: [Rdo-list] Ceilometer DB?
On 04/24/2014 06:03 PM, Jason Rist wrote:
On Thu 24 Apr 2014 04:01:54 PM MDT, Erich Weiler wrote:
>> My understanding is that work is being done on SQLAlchemy as an
>> alternative for MongoDB but at this time I don't think it is
>> 'supported'.
>
> More of a curiosity - but do you know why folks aren't working on
> integrating MySQL for ceilometer? I understand MongoDB is better at
> some tasks than MySQL, but given that many (most?) folks use MySQL for
> other OpenStack DBs, MongoDB is just "another thing to manage". You
> know?
>
> I'm sure there is a good reason for it, I'm just curious...
As SQLAlchemy is an Object Relational Mapper (ORM), it allows the
integration of many DBs.
I believe Eoghan may have some light to shed on this. I know he's told
me in the past why the above is the case, I just can't recall from past
conversations :)
Perry