If you’re following my blog posts, you read that I had to develop my own database because MySQL insert speed was deteriorating over the 50GB mark. That’s why I tried to optimize for faster insert rate. I was inserting at a rate of 50,000 inserts per second, but it grew worse, to the point of…

If you know a thing or two about databases, the mere thought of writing a database should set off alarm bells, and if you had asked me 3 years ago I would have probably told you to drop it – why write a database? With so many good free open source databases on the market,…