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I have little experience with databases, please forgive me: How useful is a database with no horizontal scaling support? Is your target market small businesses

by Meai 15y ago

I have little experience with databases, please forgive me: How useful is a database with no horizontal scaling support? Is your target market small businesses and using it as a caching tier? I can imagine that everyone dreaming of a popular website eventually needs to scale beyond a single server pc. I think a very strong selling point of Cassandra and MongoDB are 1. sharding (distributed database load over multiple machines) 2. replication (simultaneously running backup databases over multiple machines) Am I correct that I would have to make my own [nightly] backups of my database?

coffeemug 15y ago
At the moment our target customers do horizontal scaling in the application layer, and we built exactly what they need (they wouldn't use the horizontal scaling features). V1.1 of RethinkDB (currently in QA) will include replication. V1.2 will include full-blown clustering support (currently in development).
- Meai 15y ago
  Which of these features will require the premium support?
  - coffeemug 15y ago
    We're working through this now. I expect that we'll only charge for the functionality that really advanced customers need (multidatacenter support, multitenancy, resource quotas, etc.) but we haven't finalized this yet.