[131] in Hesiod
Hesiod and distributed databases
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Wed Apr 28 18:33:46 1993
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 93 18:29:33 -0400
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: moshe@tavami.enet.dec.com
Cc: hesiod@Athena.MIT.EDU, moshe@tavami.enet.dec.com
In-Reply-To: Dr Moshe Aelion 24-Apr-1993 1218's message of Sat, 24 Apr 93 02:29:59 PDT <9304240929.AA13567@enet-gw.pa.dec.com>
Hesiod isn't good at managing databases. What it does is to
distribute the contents of a database to any number of clients fairly
efficiently. But keep in mind that this is read-only lookups on a
single key, not a distributed relational database.
You need something else to actually manage the data being distributed
through hesiod. Here at Athena, we just Moira, the Athena
configuration management system. It's basically a relational database
of all of our accounts, mailing lists, filesystems, printers, etc. and
front end software to control access to that data and update system
services when the data changes.
-Mark
