[erlang-questions] Postgresql vs Mnesia vs Couchdb

Rapsey rapsey@REDACTED
Mon Jun 22 15:52:53 CEST 2009


You may want to take a look at mongodb:
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Home

It has pretty good documentation, is fast as hell and also has an erlang
driver.


Sergej


On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:46 PM, G.S. <corticalcomputer@REDACTED> wrote:

> Thanks for the link, that will work.
>
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Chris Anderson <jchris@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 6:28 PM, G.S.<corticalcomputer@REDACTED> wrote:
> > > I'm interested in throughput and reliability.
> > >
> >
> > Even knowing that suggests that you need to look closely at your
> > application needs. All three of the databases have throughput and
> > reliability, depending on the use. Are you planning to write to
> > multiple masters? Do you need offline replication? What sort of
> > queries do you need to run?
> >
> > This page might be a helpful resource:
> > http://blog.oskarsson.nu/2009/06/nosql-debrief.html
> >
> > > 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
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Chris Anderson
> > http://jchrisa.net
> > http://couch.io
> >
>


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