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Re:A Year with MongoDB by strlen on Friday April 13, 2012 @05:58PM (#3839035)
> Data Size: 50GB

I am sorry, to sound blunt, but that's an irrelevant data point. With a data set that fits comfortably into RAM (much less SSDs in RAID!), most any data store will work (including MySQL or Postgres).

> Operations per second: 450

Again, not a relevant data point. With a 10 ms seek time on a SATA disk, this is (again) well within the IOPS capacity of a single commodity machine (with RAID, a SAS drive, row cache, and operating system's elevator scheduling).

Re:A Year with MongoDB by aschobel on Saturday April 14, 2012 @03:52PM (#3841823)
Agreed, this is a trivial amount of data.

Context is the article which made is seem like even 220GB is an ok amount, still can fit in memory.