Hi, full disclaimer, I am the CTO of Scality. We just fixed the link to dovecot.com to dovecot.org on our website, thanks for pointing that out.
Indeed we have developed a connector to our object storage for dovecot 2.x, this is aimed at very large scale deployments, millions on users and petabytes of storage. Our next goal is to also distribute the metadata on our RING platform, think of it as a nosql database put tailor made for Dovecot. This would enable stateless operations on a layer of dovecot IMAP/POP frontends, although from a performance/caching point of view, a layer of statefull load balancers would redirect the same user to one dovecot box, until it dies and then transparently fails over to another box, without having to move any data around.
As Timo pointed out, focusing on keeping a lightning fast user experience makes the exercise more difficult as a naive DB layer implementation would add a lot of latency. Locking is our enemy...
Best regards
Giorgio
tanstaafl_bh wrote:
On 2011-02-08 1:21 PM, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
The Scality webpages mentions they´ve developed storage connector for dovecot: http://www.scality.com/storage-solutions/
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Best regards,
Charles
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