[Rdo-list] Ceilometer DB?

Jason Rist jrist at redhat.com
Thu Apr 24 22:03:49 UTC 2014


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.

-Jason

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