postgreSQL vs Cassandra vs MongoDB vs Voldemart ?
- by ramonrails
Which database to decide upon? Any comparisions?
Existing: postgresql
Issues
Not easily scalable horizontal. Needs sharding etc
Clustering does not solve the data growth problem
Looking for: Any database that is easily horizontally scalable
Cassandra (Twitter uses that?)
MongoDB (rapidly gaining popularity)
Voldemart
Other?
Why?
Data growing with snowball effect
existing postgresql locks table etc for vaccuum tasks periodically
Archiving data is tideous currently
Human interaction involved in existing archive, vaccuum, ... process periodically
Need a 'set it. forget it. just add another server when data grows more.' type of solution