madworld

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by madworld 14y ago
So what you are saying is I was right. Thank you. People who report a bug and give less than half of a day for someone to investigate has never dealt with a vendor like oracle or IBM. This tells me you haven't had a data problem before and
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by madworld 14y ago
How long after they reproduced did you give them to fix the issue? I looked up the thread on their mailing list and you seemingly jumped the gun a bit on your conclusions.
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by madworld 14y ago
Exactly, hook them in, so they question whether or not to deal with the problems when it falls on its face.
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by madworld 14y ago
What they are doing with Riak isn't sharding. Riak from the ground up was been designed as a distributed database. They didn't want to go horizontal when really they shouldn't have to with their datasize based on Mongo's claims. The prob
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by madworld 14y ago
That's most people's findings. If your dataset can fit in ram [1] and you don't care about your data being safe then there might be an argument for MongoDB. Once you care about your data, things like Voldemort, Riak, and Cassandra will e
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by madworld 14y ago
How is the global write lock "fixable" without a major rewrite of the codebase? Like the article suggested, it would be one thing if they did it for transaction support. In reality, from looking at the code, it seems like the global write
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by madworld 14y ago
> This is the main reason my large employer didn't even bother to seriously look at what their products had to offer. Both 10gen (Mongodb) and one of the companies offering Cassandra support contracts were a lot more reasonable. When we