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Scaling Out or Scaling Up?
Scaling Out or Scaling Up?:

Nati Shalom (Gigaspaces):

Today, with the availability of large multi-core and large memory systems, there are more cases where you might have a single machine that can cover your scalability and performance goals. And yet, there are several other factors to consider when choosing between the two options:

  1. Continuous Availability/Redundancy
  2. Cost/Performance Flexibility
  3. Continuous Upgrades
  4. Geographical Distribution

Very informative.

Original title and link for this post: Scaling Out or Scaling Up? (published on the NoSQL blog: myNoSQL)
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