[Rdo-list] Ceilometer DB?

[Perry Myers]

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