I recently used database.com, the thing that surprised me most was node naming convention, which is pretty much like Heroku, that gives similar exciting names to your nodes, for example
database.com node names are like this only, for example
Force.com platform allocates instances based on geographic locations on signing up, for example if I sign up from India, I will get most probably some instance like APX for ex. AP1, if the same sign up is done from North America, it would be NAX, ex. NA9.
As database.com is based on same platform, so I was not sure about where the nodes are geographically located because of these strange node names like “power-efficiency-xxxx”. Firstly I thought as database.com is meant to be a centrally available database, so the platform changed it self to be available across multiple geographic zones/locations(something which AWS gives). But this is not correct understanding, and I came a way to precisely know the database.com node location via this stackexchange thread.
So if you want know the real node name on which your database.com name is mapped, here are the steps
Goto System status page for Salesforce i.e. http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/status/
Click on the link named “What instance am I using?”, show in red highlights in the image next.
It will open a popup window, enter your node name only in the available text box and hit find. It will show up the real force.com node name next. The screenshot below indicates the same for my database.com org’s node “flow-app-6104” hosted on force.com instance “AP1”
Note: If you have recently signed up for a database.com node, it might take a while to reflect on the above dialog.
References
Referred StackExchange Thread: http://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/4183/database-com-nodes-different-from-force-com
Salesforce System Status Portal: http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/status
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