Approaching 1 Billion Documents with MongoDB

In yesterday's post we saw that some users have trouble achieving the the production level of performance they expect from NoSQL data stores. However, today we see the other side of the coin where an organization is approaching 1 Billion, yes that's a billion with a b, documents in their data store.

David Mytton, from Boxed Ice, provides us with the details of how they scaled MongoDB to handle such a load.

Here are the key stats:

• Documents: 981,289,332
• Collections: 47,962
• Indexes: 39,684
• Data Size: 369 GB
• Index Size: 241 GB

David provides us with 8 helpful hints of how to scale. What are they? Guess you have to read the presentation.