I went to 10gen's office hours today and asked this question. They
assured me that MongoDB is being sharded in production. Incidentally,
they also floated the possibility of using different MongoDB versions
together. I asked because I was interested in the possibility of
using a stable b
I mean just in case: :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_%28database_architecture%29
Shard database architecture
Horizontal partitioning is a database design principle whereby rows of
a database table are held separately, rather than splitting by columns
(as for normalization). Each partition
Full disclosure : I've contributed minor enhancements to windows support on
mongodb, so I'm biased.
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Gary Mort wrote:
> So...slowly getting interested in MongoDB
>
> One of the items I found interesting is the repeated assertions that "Mongo
> is designed for
It sounds scary but the LHC and CERN are field testing the sharding. I believe
they are hyping this up for the 1.6 RC 1 which offers replica sets and sharing.
-Anthony
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So...slowly getting interested in MongoDB
One of the items I found interesting is the repeated assertions that "Mongo
is designed for sharding"yet sharding only exists in the development
branch of the code...
So, my question is, is Mongo being used in production with sharding?
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