MongoDB Finds A Major Adopter In Craigslist

Re:MongoDB Finds A Major Adopter In Craigslist by danielrhodes on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @03:56AM (#2555668)

The big tests for Mongo are how well it behaves under heavy load, how easy it is to shard/replicate data at large scale (e.g. what Zawodny was talking about in his presentation about Craigslist having 100 MySQL boxes), and to what degree data is recoverable when inevitable failures happen (there are some big questions here with Mongo since it appears it trades off ACID compliance for speed).

It's great to see bigger users using Mongo because that's where these tests really take place. For example, it seems Cassandra got tested this way at Facebook/Reddit/Digg etc. and didn't cut it.

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Re:MongoDB Finds A Major Adopter In Craigslist by EwanToo on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @04:21AM (#2555717)

Pretty much all distributed databases trade off ACID for speed, it's a fundamental issue with database design.

If you've got 20 database servers, potentially on the other side of the planet from each other, if you were to be ACID compliant throughout the cluster, each write commit would be delayed up to 500ms or more.

If you're running a pair of servers in the same room, as is normally the case with a traditional "active-active" database cluster, a network delay of 1ms often isn't a significant impact.

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Re:MongoDB Finds A Major Adopter In Craigslist by Luyt on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @10:38AM (#2556490)

See http://mongodb-is-web-scale.com/ for a humorous angle on the speed vs. ACID compliance tradeoff.

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