It looks like luwak allows you stream data as well instead of just doing a put or get on the entirety of it. Thats a huge bonus if the files are very large such as video files.
Tom Burdick On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Jeremiah Peschka < [email protected]> wrote: > As I see it, there are a few advantages - > > You get Riak's built-in redundancy. The various chunks of your file will be > written in multiple locations across your cluster. Even in the event of a > single server failure, you'll still be able to read data out of your luwak > cluster. > > Performance - I would think that there's a performance boost since you can, > in theory, serve more files through the same luwak cluster than you could > serve through a single file server (unless that file server itself were also > clustered and attached to a SAN). > > If you're storing text (or some other easily understood format) you can use > MapReduce to perform queries across your files instead of having to write > some kind of file system crawler. > > Jeremiah Peschka > Microsoft SQL Server MVP > MCITP: Database Developer, DBA > > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Joshua Partogi <[email protected]>wrote: > >> From the wiki: >> "Luwak works by breaking large files into blocks and storing each block as >> a separate Riak object" >> >> But what does not get mentioned is the advantage of it. Does it make >> serving files faster? Or does it save more space in HD? >> >> Thanks heaps for your assistance. >> >> -- >> http://twitter.com/jpartogi <http://twitter.com/scrum8> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > >
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