[johnnyhillbilly]

Looks like a sound design based on a cursory inspection :)

Question(s): Do you offer any appliances? The reason why I am asking is for computationally intense workloads where the same data may be shuffled around multiple times between processors. Can one e.g. set up MemSQL with RDMA over Infiniband?

[neildahlke]

MemSQL engineer here.

No, we do not offer appliances. We are a software only solution. I do not know of any deployments where RDMA is being utilized today. I'm interested in your use case. If you're so inclined, join chat.memsql.com (my UN is eklhad) and we can converse a bit more rapidly.

[johnnyhillbilly]

Thank you guys for your answers :)

I am charting the landscape of distributed database systems (federated and homogenous). Node interconnectivity is just one of many potential bottlenecks.

With a sufficiently complex query, redistribution of data by hash must occur a number of times for linear scalability (based on my understanding). Ethernet based interconnectivity typically suffers from high CPU utilization and various QoS issues for this particular use case. This also seems to apply to Ethernet based fabric offerings, though I haven't kept up with that field for a couple of years.

If you guys are encountering performance issues connected to either RAM=>CPU loading or data redistribution between nodes, you may want to keep this in mind.

I may get in touch via chat at a later time as I'm slightly more than average interested in HPC database systems :) The more offerings, the better!