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Re: Best way to scale writes

 

Can you describe your schema and typical queries please?

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> On Oct 14, 2016, at 12:33 PM, Jon Foster <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I have a DB scenario that is very write intensive. Essentially its a
> large scale hit counter of sorts. Currently we're running on a single
> 12core server with 6 SSDs in a RAID6 array. But we're looking for a way
> to scale out write volume by adding more servers, hopefully as
> conveniently as I might add Apache servers to a website. We see two
> servers laboring so we add a third to the mix and so on.
> 
> I'm still looking at the various technologies available to me and was
> wondering if someone out there had some suggestions on this front.
> Although Galera Cluster says it scales for write loads too it also says
> that all servers write the same data and make sure its committed by the
> time the transaction is completed. So it seems like write performance
> would never scale because all servers are doing the same write.
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something.
> 
> Anyhow some pointers would be appreciated.
> 
> TIA - Jon
> 
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