NEO is a distributed, redundant and scalable implementation of ZODB API.
NEO stands for Nexedi Enterprise Object.

Requirements

    - Linux 2.6 or later

    - Python 2.4 or later

    - For python 2.4: ctypes http://python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/
      (packaged with later python versions)
      Note that setup.py does not define any dependency to 'ctypes' so you will
      have to install it explicitely.

    - MySQLdb http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python

    - ZODB 3.10 or later (requires python 2.5 or later, only for client nodes)

Overview

    A NEO cluster is composed of the following types of nodes:

    - "master" nodes (mandatory, 1 or more)
       Takes care of transactionality. Only one master node is really active
       (the active master node is called "primary master") at any given time,
       extra masters are spares (they are called "secondary masters").

    - "storage" nodes (mandatory, 1 or more)
       Stores data in a MySQL database. All available storage nodes are in use
       simultaneously. This offers redundancy and data distribution.

    - "admin" nodes (mandatory for startup, optional after)
       Accepts commands from neoctl tool and transmits them to the
       primary master, and monitors cluster state.

    - "client" nodes
       Well... Something needing to store/load data in a NEO cluster.

Disclaimer

    In addition of the disclaimer contained in the licence this code is
    released under, please consider the following.

    NEO does not implement any authentication mechanism between its nodes, and
    does not encrypt data exchanged between nodes either.
    If you want to protect your cluster from malicious nodes, or your data from
    being snooped, please consider encrypted tunelling (such as openvpn).

Installation

    a. Make neo directory available for python to import (for example, by
       adding its container directory to the PYTHONPATH environment variable).

    b. Choose a cluster name and setup a MySQL database

    c. Start all required nodes :

       neomaster --cluster=<cluster name>
       neostorage --cluster=<cluster name> --database=user:passwd@host
       neoadmin --cluster=<cluster name>

    d. Tell the cluster it can provide service.

       neoctl start

How to use

1. In zope:

   a. Copy neo directory to /path/to/your/zope/lib/python

   b. Edit your zope.conf, add a neo import and edit the `zodb_db` section by
      replacing its filestorage subsection by a NEOStorage one.
      It should look like :

      %import neo.client
      <zodb_db main>
          # Main FileStorage database
          <NEOStorage>
                master_nodes 127.0.0.1:10000
                name main
          </NEOStorage>
          mount-point /
      </zodb_db>

   c. Start zope

2. In a python script:

   a. Set your PYTHONPATH in order to be able to import Zope lib:

      $ export PYTHONPATH=/path/to/your/zope/lib/python:$PYTHONPATH

   b. Just create the storage object and play with it:

      from neo.client.Storare import Storage
          s = Storage(master_nodes="127.0.0.1:10010", name="main")
      ...

      "name" and "master_nodes" parameters have the same meaning as in
      configuration file.

Deployment:

NEO has no built-in deployment features such as process daemonization. We use
supervisor with configuration like below:

[group:neo]
programs=master_01,storage_01,admin

[program:master_01]
priority=1
command=neomaster -c neo -s master_01 -f /neo/neo.conf
user=neo

[program:storage_01]
priority=2
command=neostorage -c neo -s storage_01 -f /neo/neo.conf
user=neo

[program:admin]
priority=3
command=neoadmin -c neo -s admin -f /neo/neo.conf
user=neo