Re: [U2] Why use U2, was Interesting Article

2011-07-13 Thread Hona, David
t' Subject: Re: [U2] Why use U2, was Interesting Article I am a bit of a mongo DB fanboy myself, I think regarding performance, because of its autosharding any large scale application will definitely beat u2. Mongo db powers many mainstream enterprise solutions, and high profile websites, -

Re: [U2] Why use U2, was Interesting Article

2011-07-13 Thread Symeon Breen
hings. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Rob Sobers Sent: 13 July 2011 21:12 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Why use U2, was Interesting Article Let's see if I can draw a response from y

Re: [U2] Why use U2, was Interesting Article

2011-07-13 Thread Rob Sobers
ons. > > > > -Original Message- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org > [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Rob Sobers > Sent: 13 July 2011 16:52 > To: U2 Users List > Subject: Re: [U2] Why use U2, was Interesting Article > > Wait

Re: [U2] Why use U2, was Interesting Article

2011-07-13 Thread Steve Romanow
ot; database? That is, does Mongo save the data to disk, or just RAM? > > If it is RAM, then that is ok for tweets between high school chicks... but not so good for bank accounts. > > --Bill > > -Original Message- > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:56 PM > Subject: Re: [

Re: [U2] Why use U2, was Interesting Article

2011-07-13 Thread Bill Brutzman
: [U2] Why use U2, was Interesting Article I am a bit of a mongo DB fanboy myself, I think regarding performance, because of its autosharding any large scale application will definitely beat u2. Mongo db powers many mainstream enterprise solutions, and high profile websites, - bit.ly comes to m

Re: [U2] Why use U2, was Interesting Article

2011-07-13 Thread Steve Romanow
2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Rob Sobers > Sent: 13 July 2011 16:52 > To: U2 Users List > Subject: Re: [U2] Why use U2, was Interesting Article > > Wait, why can't you add a new column to a table in MySQL or SQL Server? > > Putting aside the RDMS arg

Re: [U2] Why use U2, was Interesting Article

2011-07-13 Thread Symeon Breen
. However i am also a u2 fanboy for many many reasons. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Rob Sobers Sent: 13 July 2011 16:52 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Why use U2, was Interesting Article Wait

Re: [U2] Why use U2, was Interesting Article

2011-07-13 Thread Rob Sobers
Wait, why can't you add a new column to a table in MySQL or SQL Server? Putting aside the RDMS arguments, (*apart from familiarity*) why wouldn't you use something like MongoDB or CouchDB, which are accessible from more programming environments, over U2? They offer the same schema flexibility and

Re: [U2] Why use U2, was Interesting Article

2011-07-13 Thread Jeff Schasny
It scales well. I benchmarked 20K concurrent users for a wholesale distribution application on a single (HP Superdome) server and that was 10 years ago. The database structure can be painlessly modified which makes it much easier for new applications development. Need a new field, slap it on