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pbbakkum on Dec 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bye, MongoDB. Hello, Cloudant

Ahh, I see. Why do you guys prefer that configuration? Space/resources, reliability?

mlmilleratmit on Dec 6, 2012 | [–]

Space/resources was certainly a concern in this case. A disk-based solution with predictable latencies enables storage of far more data than something that requires holding the working set in RAM.

kapilvt on Dec 6, 2012 | [–]

probably large amounts of writes.

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