[Glass] [GS/SS Beta] Scale to multiple nodes sharing a DB?

Mariano Martinez Peck marianopeck at gmail.com
Fri Nov 15 11:02:09 PST 2013


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Jon Paynter <kittle31 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another consideration for scaling -- what do you need to scale do?
> Do you want to handle lots of client sessions?
> Do you need to work with large / huge domain objects?
> Do you lots of complex processing to do?
>

These are excellent questions!


>
> Depending on which of these you are facing, depends on how you scale.
> Where I am, we frequently deal with the last - complex processing.
> therefore it makes sense to scale gemstone across several separate physical
> hosts so we can use all 100+ cores to do processing.
>
>
In my case, also the last question was the most important, and hence why I
asked that :)


> If you have large (memory intensive) domain objects to work on, then
> sending them over the wire to other hosts is not a good idea.
>
>
Indeed. There are always tradeoffs. But at least it is good to know which
are the possibilities of GemStone.


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