Hi Jason, These stats are totally impressive. Especially because it is real world data and no result of a synthetic benchmark.
I am interested how the three data centres are used with standard couchdb. A combination of load balancing and master-master replication? - Hans On Feb 18, 2013, at 5:01 AM, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Sure! > > Not mentioned in that email (and pardon me for banging on about it) is that > usage grows 15% monthly, i.e. doubling every 5 months. February is a short > month but we will probably hit 130M queries, a 1/3 growth since I wrote > that email. Pretty exciting! > > We are working on publishing reports and stats about individual packages > and things, so this is a good time to work on this. > > Next steps? Maybe I'll start scribbling down ideas on the wiki? > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:25 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Man, this is totally great. >> >> Perhaps we could write it up as a case-study and promote it on our >> homepage? >> >> Does that sound like a good idea? Something you could help with? >> >> >> On 1 January 2013 05:32, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, all. Sorry to be distant from the community recently. No excuse. >>> >>> I thought I might share December stats from one of Apache CouchDB's most >>> well-known deployments and killer apps: the Node.js npm registry. >>> >>> ## Facts >>> >>> * Zero downtime >>> * Three data centers: SoftLayer, EC2, Joyent >>> * 99,327,470 HTTP queries served = 37/sec >>> >>> * Slowest minute: Dec 08 09:35, 578 queries = 9.6/sec >>> * Busiest minute: Dec 20 18:43, 19,776 queries = 329/sec >>> >>> * Slowest second: (many), 0 queries >>> * Busiest second: Dec 20 18:43:03, 932 queries/sec >>> >>> ## Reflections >>> >>> This is only the public registry. Our customers and also independent >> third >>> parties run their own replicas. We do not or cannot (respectively) >> publish >>> their usage stats. >>> >>> Think about that. Isaac owns the registry. We run the registry. Yet >> neither >>> of us can even **know** its entire function, much less do anything about >>> it. That is empowerment. That is why I joined CouchDB. CouchDB is free >>> software for free data. It carries the ideals of the Free Software >> movement >>> into the 21st century. >>> >>> Plenty of sites can produce more impressive numbers than these. There are >>> even larger CouchDB sites out there. But I am still proud. This is not a >>> multi-million dollar venture-capitalized eyeball something something. We >>> run standard, orthodox Apache CouchDB. That is encouraging. I did not >>> deliver these numbers. Apache CouchDB did. These are not benchmarks. >> These >>> are production logs. That is nine-hundred thirty-two satisfied customers >> in >>> one second! (Well, a true sysadmin would say "not-yet disappointed >>> customers" which is all one can ask for.) It shows that anybody can wield >>> CouchDB to similar effect. >>> >>> There are general-purpose programming languages, and there are >>> domain-specific programming languages. Nobody gets upset because you >> can't >>> write a web server in YAML. Nobody uses .java configuration files. >>> >>> Apache CouchDB is a domain-specific database. The npm registry shows: for >>> the domain CouchDB addresses, it has no peer. >>> >>> -- >>> Iris Couch >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> NS >> > > > > -- > Iris Couch
