Alex Bordei
Alex Bordei has been developing infrastructure products for more than nine years. Before becoming Bigstep's product manager, he was one of the core developers for Hostway Corporation's provisioning platform. He then focused on defining and developing products for Hostway's EMEA market and was one of the pioneers of virtualization in the company. After successfully launching two public clouds based on VMware software, he created the first prototype of Bigstep's Full Metal Cloud in 2011. He now focuses on guaranteeing that the Full Metal Cloud is the highest performance cloud in the world, for big data applications. Twitter: @alexandrubordei
Scaling NoSQL databases: 5 tips for increasing performance
How NoSQL databases scale vertically and horizontally, and what you should consider when building a DB cluster.
Editor’s note: this post is a follow-up to a recent webcast, “Getting the Most Out of Your NoSQL DB,” by the post author, Alex Bordei.
As product manager for Bigstep’s Full Metal Cloud, I work with a lot of amazing technologies. Most of my work actually involves pushing applications to their limits. My mission is simple: make sure we get the highest performance possible out of each setup we test, then use that knowledge to constantly improve our services.
Here are some of the things I’ve learned along the way about how NoSQL databases scale vertically and horizontally, and what things you should consider when building a DB cluster. Some of these findings can be applied to RDBMS as well, so read on even if you’re still a devoted SQL fan. You might just get up to 60% more performance out of that database soon enough. Read more…