[IRCServices Coding] New IRC Services project

[Finny Merrill]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Craig Edwards wrote:

> MySQL databases arent really a good idea for an ircservices server on a large network - imagine the number of constant queries involved, it would be a much busier situation than many large websites, you would have to make a query for practically every RAW irc line from your uplink, e.g. for checking access, etc. If not for every RAW line, but for every MODE, JOIN, and PRIVMSG to a pseudoclient, and every connect, NICK, etc... Not to mention that MySQL's transaction support isnt that good (MySQL's one and only downfall) which would mean maybe a database such as PostgreSQL may work much better in this case. I have my doubts about performance though. Would connections to the database be persistent? Im not sure about the low level workings of DBMS systems but for this kind of application the connection would not need to be closed after each query, the slowdowns would be unbelievably slow.
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Don't top post, please add newlines.

This is why you would implement a memory cache. Dalnet doesn't  seem to 
have a problem with it and they use SQL databases...