Re: Horizontal scalability/sharding - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Horizontal scalability/sharding
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Msg-id 55E4B7BD.8090707@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: Horizontal scalability/sharding  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On 08/31/2015 01:16 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> All, Bruce:
>

> I'm also going to pontificate that, for a future solution, we should not
> focus on write *IO*, but rather on CPU and RAM. The reason for this
> thinking is that, with the latest improvements in hardware and 9.5
> improvements, it's increasingly rare for machines to be bottlenecked on
> writes to the transaction log (or the heap). This has some implications
> for system design.  For example, solutions which require all connections
> to go through a single master node do not scale sufficiently to be worth
> bothering with.

We see this already, under very high concurrency (lots of connections, 
many cores) we often see a significant drop in performance that is not 
related to IO in any meaningful way.

JD


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