Wordnik Reports 9 billion Records on MongoDB
In a ☞ blog post Wordnik, a user of MongoDB, has announced they’re currently storing 9 billion records (nb I assume it’s documents).
Unfortunately a lot of details are missing:
- what kind of data is stored?
- why do they need 9 billion live documents?
- how much of that is really accessed on a daily basis/monthly basis?
- hardware, infrastructure, deployment details
If someone knows more about these, I’m sure the NoSQL community would be gracious to hear them.
Update” Tony Tam (@fehguy) pointed out a presentation about Wordnik which adds some little info to the above questions:
