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by angusdavis 6099 days ago
Curious, did you get these performance gains with off-the-shelf Mysql+myisam, or did you consider YC company rethinkdb (http://www.rethinkdb.com/)?
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seiji 6099 days ago
It's MySQL with the Percona patches using InnoDB (not XtraDB yet).

I've looked into rethinkdb, but it's not quite yet ready for a bet-the-company-on-it install. We didn't order any extra $10k+ flash cards just to play around with.

The RamSan flash cards took a while to get ahold of too (the government (NSA if I recall correctly) buys them by the thousands).

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pmorici 6099 days ago
Is this worth the cost premium? It seems like you could get similar performance using 4 standard SATA SSD drives in a stripped RAID and the cost would be a bit less than 2k.
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