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lastcanal
12y ago
Then they'd need some very powerful mining equipment! Bitcoin uses merkel trees to ensure transactions in blocks never change.
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lastcanal
12y ago
OVH has a big datacenter outside Montreal. http://www.ovh.com/ca/en/vps/
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lastcanal
13y ago
It uses LevelDB as the storage engine and lets you configure the cache parameters from the configuration file. leveldb: # in MB cache_size: 500 # in KB block_size: 32 # in MB write_buffer_size: 64 # in MB compaction_speed: 1000
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13y ago
I don't have any production experience with it, but I did load the entire Bitcoin Testnet blockchain into it without issue. In Redis the same dataset required ~6 gigs of RAM.
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13y ago
The major advantage (depending on your use case) is that your dataset is not limited to the size of your available memory.
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SSDB: A fast on-disk NoSQL database that uses the Redis protocol
(ideawu.com)
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13y ago
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13y ago
Take a look at Lamernews ( https://github.com/antirez/lamernews ). It is written in Ruby by the author Redis. It uses Redis as the primary database. Here is it in action: http://lamernews.com/