MongoDB vs. Clustrix Benchmark

#1

Post by sergei » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 3:37 PM UTC

MongoDB vs. Clustrix Benchmark
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Re: MongoDB vs. Clustrix Benchmark

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Post by wmf » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 3:53 PM UTC

Price is the elephant in the room here; NoSQL exists because people aren't willing to pay for real databases. Building yet another expensive (i.e. > $0) database that doesn't even work in the cloud won't help the Web 2.0 crowd.

Re: MongoDB vs. Clustrix Benchmark

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Post by mjw0 » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 3:58 PM UTC

Spending millions on engineer time to avoid buying a real database is not good finance either. At least with this approach you can start with the (free) MySQL and only pay once you're sure your idea has traction.

Re: MongoDB vs. Clustrix Benchmark

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Post by sergei » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 4:01 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #2

Price is the elephant in the room here; NoSQL exists because people aren't willing to pay for real databases. Building yet another expensive (i.e. > $0) database that doesn't even work in the cloud won't help the Web 2.0 crowd.

These folks disagree with you. There are many more behind them.

http://gigaom.com/cloud/clustrix-lifts-the-curtain-on-early-...

And plenty of folks use MySQL (and PogreSQL to a much lesser extent). You just can't scale those.

Re: MongoDB vs. Clustrix Benchmark

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Post by moe » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 4:03 PM UTC

Winning a benchmark against MongoDB on a non-trivial workload is a little bit like winning the special olympics.

I'd be more curious to see how Clustrix performs against Cassandra, Riak or HBase in their respective domains. Those seem to be the more serious contenders when it comes to "Big Data".

Re: MongoDB vs. Clustrix Benchmark

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Post by mark_l_watson » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 4:06 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #2

Price is the elephant in the room here; NoSQL exists because people aren't willing to pay for real databases. Building yet another expensive (i.e. > $0) database that doesn't even work in the cloud won't help the Web 2.0 crowd.

I was going to make the same comment. Even very profitable companies are usually price sensitive so +1 for open source.

Re: MongoDB vs. Clustrix Benchmark

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Post by bryanmig » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 4:08 PM UTC

So a guy who is an expert in Clustrix (and knows how to setup, tune, etc) compares it against some other technology that he does not know (and does not know how to setup, tune, etc) and comes to the surprising realization that his technology is better?

Where have I seen this before? Oh right.. every time I see "Technology A vs Technology B" comparisons.

Naturally his results are in his favor, otherwise he would not have posted them.

Re: MongoDB vs. Clustrix Benchmark

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Post by psadauskas » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 4:09 PM UTC

A blog post by the founder, without posting the benchmarks themselves? How can anyone expect to take this seriously?

Re: MongoDB vs. Clustrix Benchmark

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Post by sergei » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 4:12 PM UTC

moe wrote: post #5

Winning a benchmark against MongoDB on a non-trivial workload is a little bit like winning the special olympics. I'd be more curious to see how Clustrix performs against Cassandra, Riak or HBase in their respective domains. Those seem to be the more serious contenders when it comes to "Big Data".

I chose Mongo because it gets a lot more attention on HN than any other database. I don't remember the last time I saw a post on Cassandra on here...

Re: MongoDB vs. Clustrix Benchmark

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Post by sergei » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 4:13 PM UTC

psadauskas wrote: post #8

A blog post by the founder, without posting the benchmarks themselves? How can anyone expect to take this seriously?

OK. Fair enough. I'll post the benchmarks.