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by peschkaj 15y ago
That's what I suspected. So, when your data volume exceeds what will fit in RAM, I'm guessing that your plan is to shard to multiple MongoDB servers. Is your plan to continue to add multiple replicas to each shard to handle DR?
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by peschkaj 15y ago
With SQL Server (or any RDBMS) there are known backup and recovery strategies and a WAL as added security. What kind of disaster recovery strategies are you employing with MongoDB?
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by peschkaj 15y ago
To everyone on this thread: thanks for all of your input. We're already working on the next release of CorrugatedIron and we're taking it into account. Seriously. We want to make sure that CorrugatedIron is as easy for you to use as it is f
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by peschkaj 16y ago
The current version of Riak uses Bitcask as the default disk storage engine, but InnoDB is an option that you can use. They each work well for specific workloads - Bitcask scales up until your keys (not total data) can't fit in RAM.
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by peschkaj 16y ago
That thought did cross my mind while I was writing it. Indexes give you the ability to do ad hoc querying, but they have a tremendous cost to them, at least in terms of the complexity that they add to the database. Part of the point (since
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by peschkaj 16y ago
Normalize until it hurts, denormalize until it works. Build your database tier using everything they taught you in the classroom. Normalization is your friend here. Why? When you've effectively normalized your database, you can monitor the
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The Future of Databases(facility9.com)
17 points by peschkaj 16y ago|11 comments
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by peschkaj 16y ago
Mark Twain complained about this long ago. As a previous commenter said: it's not so much that people are not able to write now, it's that they can publish their bad writing. We have metrics in schools to track how well our kids can write.
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How to blog better(facility9.com)
1 points by peschkaj 17y ago|0 comments
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Knowing and not Knowing - When is it okay to say "I don't know"?(facility9.com)
1 points by peschkaj 17y ago|0 comments
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by peschkaj 17y ago
This becomes a lot cooler, too, when you take a look at that PaSH project: http://pash.sf.net
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O/R-Ms: Panacea or Polio Braces(facility9.com)
10 points by peschkaj 17y ago|13 comments
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Getting the ISO Week and Year(facility9.com)
2 points by peschkaj 17y ago|0 comments