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B is for Billion: Wordnik passes 9 billion record mark with MongoDB

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Re: B is for Billion: Wordnik passes 9 billion record mark with MongoDB

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This is pretty well covered in this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/fehguy/migrating-from-mysql-to-mon... A few unanswered questions (sharding? Looks like none to me), but a good bit of numbers and specifics on their current setup.

The 47.7 queries per second figure in those slides surprised me a bit. I'd like to know more details there...is that for a single node, or the entire cluster?

That's per api server, we have 4 api servers.

Re: B is for Billion: Wordnik passes 9 billion record mark with MongoDB

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Single node, eh? I thought MongoDB was not supposed to be run in that configuration.

They're probably running 1+ Mongod process/node per core - not exactly ideal though.

We run one mongod master, one slave (soon to be two slaves). These are used across all the api servers.

Re: B is for Billion: Wordnik passes 9 billion record mark with MongoDB

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Well I'd never heard of Wordnik but this is very cool and I'll be using it. This is like a respectable Dictionary.com+ Urban Dictionary. I don't see the category theory definition of a monad on it, though. Which is somewhat odd.

Hi Christopher, glad you like Wordnik. Do you mean you couldn't find this?

http://www.wordnik.com/words/monad

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