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>In our case, durability was a smaller concern by design (lots of write-only data, lots of ephemeral data), I assume that you mean write once data. If you mean
by collyw 6y ago
>In our case, durability was a smaller concern by design (lots of write-only data, lots of ephemeral data),
I assume that you mean write once data. If you mean write only you might as well use /dev/null.
- haimez 6y agoThe performance gains are very impressive https://tech.wayfair.com/2013/04/devnull-vs-mongodb-benchmark-bake-off/ https://tech.wayfair.com/2013/04/devnull-vs-mongodb-benchmar...
- Jare 6y agoMost backups are never actually read / used after writing but /dev/null is not a good substitute for them. [Edit] in case I wasn't clear: Imagine data that is written and rewritten and overwritten before it gets read; a user that never returns to your product - his state data was written but will never be read. That sort of thing.