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> Ha! A few gb ram and a few tb disk is real cheap in the cloud. > If your dataset fits in ram, and when it doesn't you have to buy more boxes with more ram r
by fweespeech 9y ago
> Ha! A few gb ram and a few tb disk is real cheap in the cloud.
> If your dataset fits in ram, and when it doesn't you have to buy more boxes with more ram rather than just buying more disk, then I think you are making a very uneconomical trade off.
It is all in what lower latency is worth to the bottom line and how well you scale horizontally.
- willvarfar 9y agoMy link described performance too. A cluster of innodb boxes is going to be slower than a single tokudb box. (Src: have run each, and stuff like shard-query to parallelise queries and scale them out)