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RonDB
Company blog · rondb.com/blogsystemsdataprogramming
RonDB is the company blog at rondb.com, writing about systems, data and programming. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Journey to 100M Requests/SEC on AWS/RonDB. Spoiler: it was the load balancer”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
The most advanced distribution system of NDB Cluster, by Mikael Ronström the inventor of NDB Cluster; made to work for the most advanced ML applications.
Most-linked posts?
- Journey to 100M Requests/SEC on AWS/RonDB. Spoiler: it was the load balancer3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-08-20
- 100M Key Lookups/SEC with REST API and Python on AWS with RonDB3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-08-19
What Hacker News says?
Is it throughput and latency that are the etcd bottlenecks? Our database, RonDB, is an in-memory open-source database (a fork of MySQL Cluster). We have scaled it to 100m reads/sec on AWS hardware (not even top of the line). Might be an interesting project to implement an open-source etcd shim on top of it? Reference: https://www.rondb.com/post/100m-key-lookups-sec-with-rest-ap...
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on “K8s with 1M nodes”Submitted Show HN: RonDB – fast key-value database in the cloud as a story · 112 points
HN discussionSome of these questions are informed by the Redis/DynamoDB or Postgres/MySQL world the author seems to inhabit. Why would you want to do this? "I don’t know of any database built to handle hundreds of thousands of read replicas constantly pulling data." If you want an open-source database with Redis latencies to handle millions of concurrent reads, you can use RonDB (disclaimer, I work on it). "Since I’m only intere…
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on “Replacing a cache service with a database”Submitted Journey to 100M Requests/SEC on AWS/RonDB. Spoiler: it was the load balancer as a story · 7 points
HN discussionCheck out RonDB ( https://www.rondb.com/blog ) which is a fork of MySQL Cluster but has support for elasticity with no downtime, backups, etc. Disclaimer: i am involved with RonDB.
Comment linking /blog
on “Introducing “Database Performance at Scale”: A Free, Open Source Book”Submitted 100M Key Lookups/SEC with REST API and Python on AWS with RonDB as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted 100M Reads/SEC from Python and a REST API on AWS as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to reach 100M ops/sec with a REST API and Python on AWS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reaching 100M key lookups per second with REST API and Python clients as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 4221 Python Clients, 100M Ops/SEC, 3ms P99: Make REST APIs Work for Real-Time ML as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reaching 100M key lookups per second with REST API and Python clients as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 100M Key Lookups/SEC with REST API and Python as a story · 1 points
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