Scalability comparison between different DBMSs
- by Björn Lindfors
By what factor does the performance (read queries/sec) increase when a machine is added to a cluster of machines running either:
a Bigtable-like database
MySQL?
Google's research paper on Bigtable suggests that "near-linear" scaling is achieved can be achieved with Bigtable. This page here featuring MySQL's marketing jargon suggests that MySQL is capable of scaling linearly.
Where is the truth?