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Monday, 21 January 2013
Zynga Deploys MemSQL for Real-Time Service. Where Does This Leave Couchbase?
Derrick Harris reports for GigaOM about Zynga’s deployment of a MemSQL cluster:
Zynga has deployed nearly 100 nodes of MemSQL, the hot new database from two former Facebook engineers. It might not be a magic pill for Zynga’s woes, but it could help the company boost revenue and even build new types of games. […] At the very least, it could let the company do some things previously out of its reach, such as serve real-time recommendations and ads, and create advanced multi-player games.
Zynga has been the most prominent and most quoted production deployment for Couchbase. That despite the fact that Zynga has never run stock Couchbase, but a custom in-house version.
The story is clear that the new (100 nodes) MemSQL cluster is augmenting or replacing a part of the Zynga’s MySQL cluster. But they are using MemSQL to serve real-time recommendations and ads. A scenario that Couchbase teaches as one of its strenghts.
Original title and link: Zynga Deploys MemSQL for Real-Time Service. Where Does This Leave Couchbase? (©myNoSQL)
via: http://gigaom.com/2013/01/18/can-a-new-database-help-get-zynga-back-on-track/
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
MySQL Is Bazillion Times Faster Than MemSQL
Domas Mituzas about the MemSQL vs MySQL benchmark:
Though I usually understand that those claims don’t make any sense, I was wondering what did they do wrong. Apparently they got MySQL with default settings running and MemSQL with default settings running, then compared the two. They say it is a good benchmark, as it compares what users get just by installing standard packages.
That is already cheating, because systems are forced to work in completely different profiles.
The first paragraph of the post summarizes very well the general feeling about benchmarks:
I don’t like stupid benchmarks, as they waste my time.
I think that most of the generic benchmarks are stupid, even if some generic numbers are considered interesting by software engineers. Benchmarks designed around specific scenarios of applications will most of the time give more realistic results. But even those are difficult to design and account for all the configuration options, scaling, or changes of the use cases.
Original title and link: MySQL Is Bazillion Times Faster Than MemSQL (©myNoSQL)
