rgnitz

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   by rgnitz 14y ago

   Moving fast and breaking things in the database world is not a good thing. That said... I highly doubt collection level locking will take too long. I don't see anyone nipping at their heels. They have some competition in the key/value space
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   by rgnitz 14y ago

   I totally agree there are a lot of big apps running on Sparc... but I think that it would be much cheaper to buy new x86 hardware for a all products/systems going forward (i.e., those written for MongoDB). Sun (errr... Oracle) also sells
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   by rgnitz 14y ago

   Indeed you can distribute data to multiple independent RDBMS, but balancing when new nodes are added is probably a manual process (or a lot of custom code) that is likely to require downtime. To avoid downtime, your application would need
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   by rgnitz 14y ago

   With MongoDB, you are able to shard your system. This means you can grow your databases horizontally. This is not something you can easily (or cheaply) do in the world of RDBMS. You will see much better scalability with MongoDB than with so
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   by rgnitz 15y ago

   I just uploaded another one for you: https://mms.10gen.com/static/images/mms1.png There are actually a lot more charts available, but this gives you a hint of what is available.
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   by rgnitz 15y ago

   Riak isn't in the same ballpark as MongoDB. They are closer to Hadoop.