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You could run into problems but one option to deal with this is to "scale out" to a larger number of machines and shard the data onto each separate machine (wit
by justinjenkins 16y ago
You could run into problems but one option to deal with this is to "scale out" to a larger number of machines and shard the data onto each separate machine (with their own RAM) as appose to one or two high RAM machines.
- throwaway1138 16y agoThis bears repeating. Because MongoDB doesn't do joins, sharding is orders of magnitude easier than with an SQL system; if you run out of RAM, shard.