Feb. 23, 2011, 11:41 p.m.
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I've recently been having a play around with MongoDB and it's really cool. One of the common messages I see all over is that you should only use it if your dataset fits into memory. I've not yet seen any benchmarks on what happens when it doesn't though. So, here ...
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Sept. 21, 2011, 9:58 a.m.
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In a previous post I described Django SQL Sampler as a tool that helps you find the SQL queries that are consuming the most time on a production site. I've now renamed Django SQL Sampler to Django Sampler because it now does much more. It now has a plugin architecture ...
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Sept. 24, 2011, 8:32 a.m.
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Spent a little while trying to find the size of a specific index this morning and couldn't find any documentation on how to do it. Eventually stumbled on it in db.collection_name.stats() > db.content.stats() { "ns" : "conversocial.content", "sharded" : false, "primary" : "main01", "ns" : "conversocial.content", "count" : 1924859, "size" ...
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April 26, 2012, 3:26 p.m.
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I gave a lightning talk on this at the London MongoDB User Group and thought I'd write it up here MongoDB sucks when it hits disk (ignoring SSDs). The general advice is to never hit disk. What if you have to hit disk? Conversocial's new metrics infrastructure will allow people ...
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