It occurred to me today while watching a discussion about MySQL vs. MongoDB that there needs to be more documentation about the performance of the Dev Null database, and its open source derivatives. MongoDB fanboys should be aware that it offers the following features: 100% non-blocking Unlimited horizontal scalability Unlimited vertical scalability Supports Sharding Supports [...]

I wrote an experimental web server today that keeps some internal statistics. It’s based on libev for the purpose of comparing performance to an equivalent libevent server implementation. During my benchmarking, I sent 10,000 test requests to the server using the ‘ab’ utility from the Apache httpd software distribution using various concurrency levels. What I [...]

Today it’s the one month anniversary of Cassandra graduating to a top level Apache project. It now has a new and improved project URL: http://cassandra.apache.org Recently you may have noticed my writing about Drizzle, but that’s not the only database system I love. I’m also a fan of Cassandra, and I’m proud to work with [...]