I'm about as big a AWS fanboy as there is. I've used it for several MarkLogic implementations, although not for any high-traffic websites. I've found the performance to be very good. I've used Hi-CPU Extra Large, Large, Small, and Micro. Micro really is too low, but I have used it successfully (because I am a cheapstake). Small works surprisingly well, and I've had one site up running on one for months with no issues. I've recently been doing to CPU-intensive data crunching with MarkLogic and I used a Hi-CPU Extra Large instance but the CPU usage never went about 60%. So I dropped down to a Large (which is half the price) with no perceived difference in performance. Depending on what I am doing, I get around 3x to 10x faster than my MacBook if that's worth anything. I've only done single-server on AWS, no clustering.
I only have anecdotal evidence for you from my own experience. But I start and stop MarkLogic instances and make AMIs all the time and the Infrastructure-as-a-Service has been awesome with MarkLogic. I sometimes take snapshots and just restore a snapshot is I mess stuff up too bad because it can be faster than trying to undo my errors. Usually this takes a couple minutes even with GBs in the DB. There are a few nuances about running MarkLogic on AWS, particularly in the startup script. But I would recommend seriously investigating AWS as an option for running MarkLogic. I'm sure for some organizations it's not cost effective or appropriate for them given their data or security needs. But I don't think there's a performance concern. my $0.02 -Ryan > From: david....@marklogic.com > To: general@developer.marklogic.com > Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:24:22 -0800 > Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] marklogic and amazon web services > > No, the reason is that I've changed employment since then and so "I" am no > longer using AWS for those apps (but my previous employer is still using the > app on AWS to my knowledge). > There was discussion on moving it in-house but it mainly involved IT > management issues not performance. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > David Lee > Lead Engineer > MarkLogic Corporation > d...@marklogic.com > Phone: +1 650-287-2531 > Cell: +1 812-630-7622 > www.marklogic.com > > This e-mail and any accompanying attachments are confidential. The > information is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is > addressed. Any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of this > e-mail communication by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the > intended recipient, please notify us immediately by returning this message to > the sender and delete all copies. Thank you for your cooperation. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com > [mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Jakob Fix > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 10:11 AM > To: General MarkLogic Developer Discussion > Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] marklogic and amazon web services > > Thanks David for this very quick reply. I note you said to have used > AWS, so it sounds like this is no longer the case. If so, could you > share whether this decision was hosting-related? > > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 16:05, David Lee <david....@marklogic.com> wrote: > > I've used ML on AWS (using a "large" instance) with reasonably good > > performance in production. > > However this was not a hugely intensive site, and I was unable to compare > > the same app to a local storage. > > There are things you can do to increase performance, such as RAID'ing the > > drives ... > > I found the first few minutes were slow as the NAS cached in data but then > > it ran quite well. > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > David Lee > > Lead Engineer > > MarkLogic Corporation > > d...@marklogic.com > > Phone: +1 650-287-2531 > > Cell: +1 812-630-7622 > > www.marklogic.com > > > > This e-mail and any accompanying attachments are confidential. The > > information is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is > > addressed. Any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of this > > e-mail communication by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the > > intended recipient, please notify us immediately by returning this message > > to the sender and delete all copies. Thank you for your cooperation. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com > > [mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Jakob Fix > > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 9:55 AM > > To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion > > Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] marklogic and amazon web services > > > > Hello, > > > > I just wanted to get a couple of opinions of using AWS and MarkLogic > > for production work. Are people happy with the performance and more > > particularly with the I/O? There was quite some excitement last year > > about deploying ML via AWS. What's the experience one year later? > > > > Thanks, > > Jakob. > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General@developer.marklogic.com > > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General@developer.marklogic.com > > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@developer.marklogic.com > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@developer.marklogic.com > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
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