I totally agree with the one database solution, which would be my choice, if there were no legal issues attached to the different datasets.
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey Vidja, > > May I ask why so many database instances are required? In my experience, if > you get to the point where you really need this many, it's usually better to > use a solution like Sphinx Search Engine, then employ your database as a > heavy key/value store (with the bare necessary unique compound keys). > > We have a database with around 19 million rows (500,000 now added each > day), which comes to around 20gb in the data lib folder. Now we push around > 170 queries per second average (consisting of simple ID lookups), on a > single quad core server with 8gb RAM. All the lookup queries take place > inside Sphinx Search. > > This may not be appropriate for what you need, and does add some > complexity, but I would certainly encourage you to explore this option if > performance is what you need, without having to throw more and more hardware > into it. > > Cal > > > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Vidja <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> does anyone have experience with querying against multiple databases >> and performance issues? My plan is to query against 15-200 instances >> of a database (Postgres on a 8 core 32 GB machine, each db about 200 >> mb) , all with the same schema (an thus model file), but with >> different data. >> Are there serious performance bottlenecks to be expected? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.

