Re:Call me maybe: Aerospike
by yellowapple on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @03:42PM
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> Yes, marketing claims are BS. If this was a reason to not use something, we'd have to stop using pretty much every other commercial piece of software we have.
Which is what I at least have indeed opted to do; I avoid commercial software like the plague for this very reason, using it only when there isn't an alternative (like when it's a legacy system that has to be interfaced with). There are plenty of free software projects that don't make outrageous marketing claims and - therefore - aren't nearly as susceptible to disappointment and wasted money.
Aerospike's claims border on the realm of false advertising (if they don't actually classify as false advertising, which is a big "if"; the claim of 100% uptime is dubious at best and more likely to be an outright-malicious lie). Why should they get my money?
2) Yes, marketing claims are BS. If this was a reason to not use something, we'd have to stop using pretty much every other commercial piece of software we have. That's why we test and run software in our environment, and there... aerospike works. Really well. Even with network partitions. So I can understand kyle's tests in this post and the reasoning and results but there's still a big gap between this testing and the reality our company has experienced.