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Boxed Ice is probably one of the larger MongoDB production deployments, and no doubt letting the DB handle the data growth will be a good thing for them. If any
by pierrefar 16y ago
Boxed Ice is probably one of the larger MongoDB production deployments, and no doubt letting the DB handle the data growth will be a good thing for them. If anyone is going to run into issues deploying this, they will.
I have great hopes for Mongo 1.6: the automatic partioning and failover make it a very useful addition to startups' toolkits who need this kind of data storage. It's like having your very own Amazon SimpleDB that's cheaper to build and you control it 100%.
BTW, David gave a good talk about how Boxed Ice uses Mongo recently in London: http://skillsmatter.com/event/cloud-grid/mongouk http://skillsmatter.com/event/cloud-grid/mongouk
- rb2k_ 16y agoIf sharding and repliaction is a major concern, I'd also take a look at riak or cassandra. Especially as a simple key-value store, they offer more interesting balancing and error recovery features than MongoDB. MongoDB does however have a rich data-schema and allows queries (although the necessary indexes bring up ram consumption a fair bit and might become a problem)
- pierrefar 16y agoYeah I looked at them a little bit. The reason I went with Mongo for my purposes was because it works the way I thought of the data and also it has a very helpful community. It's also very easy to set up and get going with PHP.