Surge 2011 ~ From all-sql to no-sql and back to some-sql: choosing the right db cocktail for Datadog
We will detail several architectures we evaluated or operated to meet our needs: accepting a continuous influx of events, storing tens of billions of points as time-series, and offering rich and low-latency query semantics on them. Expect to hear in particular about: * What we got from Oracle/Postgres over the past decade, and at what cost * Illustrated joys and growing pains of running Cassand...