[erlang-questions] Postgresql vs Mnesia vs Couchdb

G.S. corticalcomputer@REDACTED
Sun Jun 21 03:28:36 CEST 2009


I'm interested in throughput and reliability.

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Sean Cribbs <seancribbs@REDACTED> wrote:

> Dynomite is a Dynamo clone written mostly in Erlang:
> http://github.com/cliffmoon/dynomite
>
> Your question about benchmarks and scalability is rather vague.  Are you
> looking for throughput, availability, reliability, or some other factor?
>  Also, you cite three very different databases, that have different
> purposes.  I think a better question would be "which one is appropriate for
> the application I'm building?"
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sean
>
>
> G.S. wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Anyone ever ran a benchmark against these 3 dbs to see which ones scale
>> better to terabyte scale? Also, are there any well known projects in
>> Erlang
>> that are similar to Dynamo?
>> Also, what does everyone suggest one uses for a db if one knows that that
>> db
>> might grow to be huge, I've heard that mnesia does not scale that well.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Gene
>>
>>
>>
>
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