Re:How We’re Building a Business to Last
by elcritch on Thursday January 19, 2017 @11:36PM
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Not necessarily, even small datasets can benefit from a distributed database. Configuring a HA database setup for any of the open source DB's requires a lot of work. For a startup, a small cluster can provide HA, redundancy, and ease of scalability should the need arise.
Re:How We’re Building a Business to Last
by haimez on Saturday January 21, 2017 @12:21AM
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No one cares about the difference between 99.9 and 99.999 reliability at the DB layer and then adopts a new open source DB to solve that problem. Especially when that exciting, new, experimental database cripples your ability to back it up. Hilarious.
If you can't incrementally back it up, you can't really afford to run it in production in a cluster that has a large dataset. If you don't have a large dataset, you don't need cockroach db (first law of distributed objects, etc).
Maybe you'd be better off designing features for clients with specific requirements and very deep pockets.