In article <4d3c8d53$0$44021$742ec...@news.sonic.net>, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: > > Google's BigTable and Facebook's Cassandra offer impressive >performance at very large scale. But they're way overkill for >a desktop app. Even the midrange systems, like CouchDB, are >far too much machinery for a desktop app.
Side note: one reason we chose Cassandra for our "midrange" requirements was that it doesn't have master nodes, and we wanted to avoid single point of failure. Side note 2: do NOT run Cassandra on a virtual machine. That was a bad mistake we made because our performance requirements are fairly modest. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Programming language design is not a rational science. Most reasoning about it is at best rationalization of gut feelings, and at worst plain wrong." --GvR, python-ideas, 2009-03-01 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
