December 28, 2007

ThruDB: faster and cheaper than SimpleDB

After some brainstorming, and a few late-night chats Jake created a Disk+S3 backend which gives us all the benefits of the Disk-only model, and the hassle free approach of the S3 engine. In this implementation, the data is persisted on local disk, which gives us an incredible throughput capacity, and a slave thread quietly replays all of the commands to the S3 backend as well, thus giving us a hassle free persistence and recovery model for virtual environments such as EC2! Let's take a look at the request cycles: Link Posted by Tim at December 28, 2007 09:14 PM | TrackBack