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Sergei Tsarev
Personal blog · sergei.clustrix.comprogrammingdata
Sergei Tsarev's personal blog at sergei.clustrix.com covers programming and data. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sergei Tsarev's old Clustrix company blog as a source of technical information about the Clustrix database. One commenter cites its 2011 MongoDB vs Clustrix benchmark as evidence on MongoDB's behaviour under heavy writes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
While these are all great products and can provide highly available layers on top of MySQL, only MySQL cluster satisfies rtdsc's requirements, and I have my doubts about its behavior around clocks. In general, the MySQL HA space prefers CP to AP. MySQL Cluster is CP within a cluster. A circularly replicated pair of MySQL Clusters can be considered AP, with limited support for conflict resolution (if I understand cor…
Comment linking /2011/02/mongodb-vs-clustrix-comparison-part-2.html
on “Migrating From MongoDB To Riak At Bump”There's some technical information still available on Sergei's old company blog: http://sergei.clustrix.com/
Comment linking /
on “MariaDB acquires Clustrix”You always have to benchmark for your own use-case. This is even more true for mongo than for other databases because mongo doesn't degrade very well; when you overload it with writes it will effectively grind to a halt. This is documented e.g. in the clustrix benchmark: http://sergei.clustrix.com/2011/01/mongodb-vs-clustrix-compa...
Comment linking /2011/01/mongodb-vs-clustrix-comparison-part-1.html
on “New MongoDB alerts and advisories page”