Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] One way to scale Firebird put it on memory virtual disk or ramfs
Author Roman Simakov
In any case you have no ACID properties for not read-only databases right?

2013/1/22 Sergey Mereutsa <serj@...>:
> Hi!
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> Moreover, you can add shadow to this database and you will gain speed on read, but will have the same speed as HDD on write.
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> Other way to keep data from in-memory database - backup it periodically :)
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> Tuesday, January 22, 2013, 1:11:05 PM, you wrote:
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> m> On linux i can mount a partition in memory (Install ubuntu/debian)
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> m> sudo mkdir /mnt/ram
> m> sudo mount -t ramfs -o size=200G ramfs /mnt/ram
> m> mount to show you the partitions mounted
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> m> and then move your database into the ram partition
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> m> http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/01/ec2-for-in-memory-computing-the-high-memory-cluster-eight-extra-large.html
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> m> That large instance could help you with the Firebird cache
> m> settings also the extra SSD could do wonders
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> m> Inspired by the stack overflow big fat server architecture
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> m> http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/8/5/stack-overflow-architecture.html
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