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I'm trying to understand why this is being upvoted so much.
by rubiquity 12y ago
I'm trying to understand why this is being upvoted so much.
- brlewis 12y agoI upvoted in the hope that I'll find out that "auto-scaling" means it automatically scales to large numbers of reads and/or writes, which would amount to one awesome service. Since pricing is based on storage, I'm inclined to think it only auto-scales to high storage needs. I'm hoping to be wrong. The part where they say release 9.4 brought them within reach technically of what they wanted to do gives me some hope that I'm wrong.
- mrkurt 12y agoIt automatically scales all resources based on data size. This means increasing IOPs, RAM allotments, and CPU capacity on the fly as the data grows. At 1TB of data, for instance, the DB would have access to 100GB of RAM, about 60,000 random IOPs, and 12 full CPU cores.
- splitrocket 12y agoIs dataset size the only autoscaling criteria? I.E. my data set is relatively small but with very large transaction volume. Additionally, do you have standard postgres modules installed? Specifically, at least for my use case, PostGIS?
- mrkurt 12y agoPostGIS is coming soon, the contrib extensions are all available to be turned on for DBs. Autoscaling is currently datasize only. You can scale deployments up manually, however, for DBs where our 1/10 ratio isn't quite right.
- splitrocket 12y agoThanks!