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Saved by 1 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-06-04
- Tswicegood on 2008-06-04 - Tags no_tag
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The databases we use today were designed 20, 30 years ago.
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Relational databases were designed in that world. They require huge amounts of work up-front (schema design, data normalization, query design, performance tuning) to allow single queries to run at maximum speed. And this made sense. At the time.
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The computing world and the usage patterns today are fundamentally different.
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Thousands of users update their status on Twitter and Facebook this minute, in parallel.
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Doing a simple concurrency benchmark reveals that I can serve around 1000 concurrent read requests from CouchDB from my Mac Mini
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This not a fair comparison though, the requests do not do the same calculations so they can’t be compared. But they are not fair either the other way around: CouchDB and the tests are not optimized at all while the other setup is a few years in the making.
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