Here’s something interesting I came across today at Justin Silverton’s blog- SQL Relay. SQL Relay is a persistent database connection pooling, proxying and load balancing system for Unix and Linux.

SQL Relay is ideal for:

• speeding up database-driven web-based applications
• enhancing the scalability of database-driven web-based applications
• distributing access to replicated databases
• throttling database access
• accessing databases from unsupported platforms
• migrating applications from one database to another

Link to Justin’s Article: whenpenguinsattack.com: using sql relay
Link to SQL Replay : http://sqlrelay.sourceforge.net/

[tags]proxy, database, load balancing[/tags]