2014-05-19 11:49 GMT+02:00 Johan De Meersman <vegiv...@tuxera.be>: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Manuel Arostegui" <man...@tuenti.com> > > Subject: Re: Big innodb tables, how can I work with them? > > > > noSQL/table sharding/partitioning/archiving. > > I keep wondering how people believe that NoSQL solutions magically don't > need RAM to work. Nearly all of them slow down to a crawl, many even worse > than an SQL database, as soon as the full or working set no longer fits in > memory, too. > > Don't get me wrong - they have certain benefits and definite usecases, but > it's time people stop presenting them as a magic bullet. They require > understanding and work, just like any other technology. > > I was thinking about its distributed system as it might speed up reads :-) We do have a huge noSQL cluster here at work and it certainly needs lot of RAM.
Manuel
