barkanido

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   Open Source Clojure Library for Aerospike(medium.com)

   4 points by barkanido 8y ago|0 comments
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   by barkanido 9y ago

   In Aerospike case, they do not use a file system. they own the mount point and access the disk blocks directly, optimizing for local SSD disks.
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   by barkanido 9y ago

   Queries here are measured from the application side. And in our case, those are simple key-value operations such as get(key), update(key, value), write(key, value) and delete(key). Aerospike is known to optimize those into fewer block opera
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   by barkanido 9y ago

   Yes. Low latency lookups are q requirement. Saying that, even double the latency we have now would be okay. More important then latency was actually throughput and high availability. And this was demonstrated by Aeropsike well.
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   by barkanido 9y ago

   ScyllaDB was actually too late to enter our POC (we had a somewhat tight schedule for migration) but it was a valid candidate nevertheless.
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   by barkanido 9y ago

   Financially it was a good decision. The current cluster is a lot less than the original one, and traffic + data have grown since. we currently maintain 2 clusters of 5 i3.4xlarge machines. That's a total of 10 machines and is a lot che
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   Large Scale NoSQL Database Migration Under Fire(medium.com)

   2 points by barkanido 9y ago|0 comments