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Re:I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and El... by virgilp on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:06PM (#19820752)
You really don't remember the "web scale" memes about Mongo? It was always primarily about "performance".
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Re:I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and El... by acdha on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:22PM (#19820913)
I don't remember seeing that predicated as a low-level I/O savings — it was always things about being easy to cluster or avoiding the performance overheads of ACID. The pitch was usually “it's easier and you don't need a skilled DBA”.
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Re:I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and El... by adrianhel on Friday May 03, 2019 @08:02PM (#19823325)
What I heard was "You can practically scale indefinitely". Which I guess is more true of NoSQL. As is I/O savings. But it's not something I've ever heard it advertised for.
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Re:I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and El... by rhizome on Friday May 03, 2019 @04:40PM (#19822066)
Performance was an imposed callsign of Mongo, the reason everybody started using it was the declarative schema stuff and so the dev didn't have to know how to start a terminal, which was a not-insignificant hurdle. It doesn't have significant performance differences over other simple KVs. "Faster" was primarily a measurement of learning curve.
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