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SSDB: A fast on-disk NoSQL database that uses the Redis protocol (ideawu.com)
10 points by lastcanal 4474 days ago
3 comments
rickette 4474 days ago
Looks great judging from the docs, anyone using this? Care to share any experience?
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lastcanal 4474 days ago
I don't have any production experience with it, but I did load the entire Bitcoin Testnet blockchain into it without issue. In Redis the same dataset required ~6 gigs of RAM.
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otterley 4474 days ago
What are its advantages over Redis, besides a slight increase in speed?
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taternuts 4474 days ago
Yeah I'd be interested in hearing that as well - I think most will take a slight hit in speed for something that's been successfully used in production with several well-known companies.
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lastcanal 4474 days ago
The major advantage (depending on your use case) is that your dataset is not limited to the size of your available memory.
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otterley 4473 days ago
Does it manage its own cache like InnoDB? Otherwise you're gonna have a bad time.

Redis tried this (see http://redis.io/topics/virtual-memory) but it died a quick and well-deserved death (the code isn't even in it anymore as of 2.6).

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lastcanal 4473 days ago
It uses LevelDB as the storage engine and lets you configure the cache parameters from the configuration file.

   leveldb:
	# in MB
	cache_size: 500
	# in KB
	block_size: 32
	# in MB
	write_buffer_size: 64
	# in MB
	compaction_speed: 1000
	# yes|no
	compression: no
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collyw 4473 days ago
Do we really need another new NoSQL database?
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