Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Is Your Database Wasting the Ephemeral Drive?

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Is Your Database Wasting the Ephemeral Drive?

If you are running in a VM or a container, you get the following types of storage:

Network-attached durable storage. Even if your VM or container moves from one physical host to another, your drive is guaranteed to follow without losing committed data. This is typically what all databases use for data on disk. A downside is that it's network-attached and thus, a regular disk write is a network plus disk write.

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