I'm so glad to read this. I was thinking the same thing. On Sep 11, 2014, at 7:22 AM, Jeff Darcy <jdarcy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> For distributed store, I would think of MongoDB which provides >> distributed/replicated/highly available/master read-write/slave read-only >> database. Lets get what community think about SaltStack and/or MongoDB. > > > I definitely do not think MongoDB is the right tool for this job. I'm > not one of those people who just bash MongoDB out of fashion, either. I > frequently defend them against such attacks, and I used MongoDB for some > work on CloudForms a while ago. However, a full MongoDB setup carries a > pretty high operational complexity, to support high scale and rich > features . . . which we don't need. This part of our system doesn't > need sharding. It doesn't need complex ad-hoc query capability. If we > don't need those features, we *certainly* don't need the complexity that > comes with them. We need something with the very highest levels of > reliability and consistency, with as little complexity as possible to go > with that. Even its strongest advocates would probably agree that > MongoDB doesn't fit those requirements very well. > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
