MySQL sharding with Spock Proxy

Posted on April 19th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi

Spock Proxy , developed at Spock.com seems like a mysql-proxy work-alike except that it makes sharding or horizontal partitioning of the database easy and transparent (or at least that is the idea).

The Spock Proxy project page mentions that Spoke is built on Rails, and ActiveRecord, but from the description it seems like this could be transparently applied to other frameworks that make it hard to split up database requests (Django, I’m looking at you).

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