Cloudiquity

We recently did some tests with regards to replacing an existing MySQL implementation with MongoDB. I thought some of the tests would be interesting to share. MySQL ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.27, for Win32 (ia32) MongoDB v2.0.4 for Win32 (journaling not enabled) The test was centred around a table that has 400000 records with numbered names [...]

Tags: Comparisons, MonoDB, MySQL, NoSQL

An interesting article in the New York Tines online by Derrick Harris of GigaOM outlined the release of some customers using Clustrix webscale SQL database, namely, Box.net, AOL, PhotoBox, and iOffer. Clustrix launched in early May with the claim that it’s DB technology, which features MySQL like transactionality and reliability, could scale to billions of [...]

Tags: Caching, Cloud, Clustrix, GigaOM, NoSQL, Sharding, SQL