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Finally! In 2011, when I was working on optimizing 100Gb databases on dedicated hardware for small businesses, everyone in the database world was talking SQL c
by tkyjonathan 10y ago
Finally!
In 2011, when I was working on optimizing 100Gb databases on dedicated hardware for small businesses, everyone in the database world was talking SQL chips and PCI-E fast storage.
Fast forward to today when cloud and virtualisation and now I'm working on "big data" 400Mb RDS instances.
Its time we go "retro" and #gophysical for some things.
- discodave 10y agoIf anybody has the resources to start building dedicated FPGA (or whatever) instances for SQL workloads it would be one of the public cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- tkyjonathan 10y agoGood! They will have to set aside servers that do just databases with SQL chips, but either way, I would be happy if they do that. I would also be interested to see if there is a new trend to go back to owning commodity hardware, putting CoreOS+docker on it + a database with a hopefully inexpensive SQL chip. Moving away from VMware, massively expensive servers, massively expensive SANs, proprietary backups.. Would be very interesting to see.