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How Clustrix does distributed SQL (It's impressive)

by weel on 12/8/10, 8:55 PM with 9 comments

  • by bayareaguy on 12/8/10, 10:57 PM

    Sounds a lot like the HyPra / ClustRa system.

    http://books.google.com/books?id=KH_kfSsMu80C&dq=HypRa+C...

  • by SpikeGronim on 12/8/10, 11:05 PM

    What's interesting to me is that they're selling this as an appliance, and a high end one at that. They're using Infiniband networking and seven SSDs per appliance. That's some serious cost. Their overall software design as described in the white paper isn't that new or interesting IMO. Teradata and others have been doing very similar things for a long time.
  • by vibhavs on 12/8/10, 10:44 PM

    Very interesting white paper. (I didn't realize that Clustix is a YCombinator company -- they're class of 2006.)