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Aug
11
2010
Comparing ScaleDB’s Shared Cache Tier vs. NFS and CFS
Posted by Mike Hogan on Wed 11 Aug 2010 00:50 UTC
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Prior posts addressed the performance benefits of a shared cache tier (ScaleDB CAS) and also the storage flexibility it enables.This post compares the ScaleDB CAS purpose-built file storage sharing system against off-the-shelf solutions like NFS and various cluster file systems (CFS).

When using a clustered database, like ScaleDB, each node has full access to all of the data in the database. This means that the file system (SAN, NAS, Cloud, etc.) must allow multiple nodes to share the data in the file system.

Options include:
1. Network File System (NFS)
2. Cluster File System (CFS)
3. Purpose-built file storage interface

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