Latest Comments

• - "Very insightful text. I thank you a lot for a sneak peek into w...." There's Just No Getting around It: You're Building a Distributed System
• - "@ Jens M Andreasen On MacBook Pros with dual video card (Intel?..." Realtime GPU Audio
• - "You are having unreasonably high latencies in OSX, way above 10 ..." Realtime GPU Audio

• Print

In I/O Performance (no longer) Sucks in the Cloud, I said   Many workloads have high I/O rate data stores at the core. The success of the entire application is dependent upon a few servers running MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, or some other central database.   Last week a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type based upon SSDs was announced that delivers 120k reads per second and 10k to 85k writes per second. This instance type with direct attached SSDs is an incredible I/O machine ideal for database workloads, but most database workloads run on virtual storage today.

read the complete posting from Perspectives

Back to top