[Dovecot] Dovecot and scalable database storage

[Timo Sirainen]

On 23.3.2012, at 4.36, <list at airstreamcomm.net> <list at airstreamcomm.net> wrote:

> I saw some interesting mails from TImo back in 2009 talking about the idea
> of using something like Cassandra db or similar as a storage platform for
> both email and index/logs.  I was wondering if this has been discussed
> since then, and if there are any plans to support something like this in
> the future?  I have been playing with Cassandra and found that their
> RackAwareStrategy gives you the ability to replicate writes to as many
> nodes as you would like, but more importantly what nodes and one of those
> nodes could be defined by what rack it lives in or what data center it
> lives in.  This means multiple sites high available storage clusters,
> seemingly a system that dovecot could benefit from in terms of performance
> and redundancy and simplicity.  Any takers?

There are still plans, but not in near future. I'm still planning on implementing it by first making Dovecot's code simpler and more asynchronous, and then the key-value database support could be implemented in just a few hours.