Comments on: Automated, integrated sharding — the new killer database feature http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/04/09/automated-integrated-sharding-the-new-killer-database-feature/ Stay curious! Thu, 02 May 2013 12:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/04/09/automated-integrated-sharding-the-new-killer-database-feature/#comment-20027 Xaprb Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:15:28 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2707#comment-20027 If you must build a system that is too large to fit onto a single database server, you must partition the data somehow. I just don’t agree with the (once-common, seemingly more balanced recently) advice that you must shard everything from day one.

]]> By: Ed http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/04/09/automated-integrated-sharding-the-new-killer-database-feature/#comment-20024 Ed Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:21:23 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2707#comment-20024 Baron – in the Web Operations book, sharding was at the top of your list in terms of risky architectures. Just curious if you’ve changed your opinion on that since publication of that book.

Thanks,
-Ed

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/04/09/automated-integrated-sharding-the-new-killer-database-feature/#comment-19991 Xaprb Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:36:14 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2707#comment-19991 Rob, no worries — my terse reply was testing to see if you were trolling… I didn’t want to engage if so ;-)

There’s another one I didn’t mention: Zimory Scale.

]]> By: Rob Shepherd http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/04/09/automated-integrated-sharding-the-new-killer-database-feature/#comment-19990 Rob Shepherd Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:00:26 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2707#comment-19990 Ah, got it.

You’re statement is, in other words: Mongo db has limitations ‘in some areas’. But nonetheless it has at least some built in sharding functionality with a prescribed way of using it.

My eyes must have scanned ahead and joined up the sentence incorrectly, apologies.

It’s hard enough to form these inquiries in an objective-enough fashion without it coming across as flame-bait; I should at least read the initial text properly! :)

Cheers, keep up the good blogging – I’m a long time reader.

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/04/09/automated-integrated-sharding-the-new-killer-database-feature/#comment-19988 Xaprb Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:37:10 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2707#comment-19988 You should re-read what I wrote.

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