Why “shards” is being discussed
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> Distributed querying may still just be a workaround rather than something anyone actualy wants to do as a first option. That is not the case. Even on a single machine with mul…
by elendilm · Oct 19, 2026
> Okay, again, what kind of scale are we talking about here? 100ks of writes/second You seem to be confusing writes/second with concurrent write transactions/seco…
by elendilm · Oct 19, 2026
thanks for sharing your thoughts, you have the architecture right, kividb uses shared everything with fine-grained locks, similar to keydb and garrnet. it uses 8 shards per core…
by murtazayusuf · Oct 19, 2026
> What industries is it common ... perform better than the ones built with coordination with the storage engine and everything else ... Uber for one as documented here https:&#x…
by elendilm · Oct 19, 2026
> What is extreme scale here? Not just data, but concurrent operations per second for writes and reads involving seperate transactions. Eg: Scaling concurrent write transactions…
by elendilm · Oct 19, 2026
It is mostly because kividb can utilize all the cores you can allow on a machine, whereas Antirez built redis as a single threaded cache. The fairer comparison imo would be with…
by murtazayusuf · Oct 19, 2026
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