Re: Looking for a replacement datastore

2012-08-17 Thread Parnell Springmeyer
I use Riak at my company primarily for time series data; I quickly learned that key filters were a bad idea (when I designed our data model, I had the uid's of the objects in MySQL plus the timestamp of the data piece) and once I moved to Map/Reduce using Erlang module/functions, it dramatically

Re: Looking for a replacement datastore

2012-08-17 Thread Alexander Zhuravlev
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:20:50PM -0600, Shawn Parrish wrote: > Howdy Riak folk, > > We're looking for a possible datastore replacement for our server > monitoring check results. Maybe some of you can offer feedback if > Riak is a possible good solution. > > Each ping, http request, etc has a r

Re: Looking for a replacement datastore

2012-08-16 Thread Alexander Sicular
Hi Shawn, tl;dr use Riak and Redis. Could you do it without Redis? Probably. Would I want to? No. I'll take a stab at this. It goes without saying that there are many ways to do this and no "right" way. Each solution will have its own positives and negatives. It all depends on what you and you

Looking for a replacement datastore

2012-08-16 Thread Shawn Parrish
Howdy Riak folk, We're looking for a possible datastore replacement for our server monitoring check results. Maybe some of you can offer feedback if Riak is a possible good solution. Each ping, http request, etc has a result with various metadata that we store. We're looking at about 250 millio