Re:Re: MemSQL the “world's fastest database”? (2012)
by ignoramous on Friday October 03, 2014 @10:51AM
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I don't work for MemSQL. I know what I know from various posts on Quora, and the MemSQL engg blog itself. So take everything I say with a grain of salt.
MemSQL has two modes (if I am right): synchronous and asynchronous. I believe, if you're a bank, you'd want the first one. But if high throughput is your priority, you can afford to sacrifice durability for that, I think MemSQL would be an extremely fast solution compared with other disk-first datastores.
One thing that memory-first datastores (MemSQL, VoltDB) would be really good at is lots of reads.
MemSQL has two modes (if I am right): synchronous and asynchronous. I believe, if you're a bank, you'd want the first one. But if high throughput is your priority, you can afford to sacrifice durability for that, I think MemSQL would be an extremely fast solution compared with other disk-first datastores.
One thing that memory-first datastores (MemSQL, VoltDB) would be really good at is lots of reads.