sharding

MongoDB conversation

Andrew Glover — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:37:46 -0400

Not long ago, I had the distinct pleasure of chatting with Eliot Horowitz, the CTO of 10gen (the commercial company behind MongoDB). In this podcast, Eliot talks about MongoDB, which is a scalable, high-performance, open source document database. Eliot does a wonderful job of describing how MongoDB can fit into your toolkit and how it differs from alternatives like CouchDB.

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Sharding with Hibernate

Andrew Glover — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:28:41 -0400

As I’ve pointed out before, sharding isn’t for everyone, but it’s one way that relational systems can meet the demands of huge data. For some shops, sharding means being able to keep a trusted database like MySQL in place without sacrificing data scalability or system performance.

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High performance SimpleDB

Andrew Glover — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:03:15 -0400

Sid Anand, who writes the Practical Cloud Computing blog, has a series of posts entitled “SimpleDB Essentials for High Performance Users” in which he outlines a set of best practices and conventions for effectively leveraging SimpleDB. If you are using SimpleDB or are planning to, I highly recommend reading his points as they are super hip. Check out:

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Think twice before sharding

Andrew Glover — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:29:18 -0400

I recently saw that Grails supports sharding via a nifty plugin. Briefly, sharding (as defined in Wikipedia) is a method of horizontal partitioning

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Scalability rap session with Todd Hoff

Andrew Glover — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:21:05 -0500

I have long admired highscalability.com for its focus on interesting techniques, libraries, and case studies all related to the hip art of scaling; indeed, this website has some super cool articles regarding YouTube, Amazon, and Google to name a few high profile websites that appear to have scaled quite copasetically.

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