Here is an excellent article presenting Aerospike's NoSQL database performance on a single node on Amazon. On a single Amazon C3.8xlarge instance it does 1 Million TPS. The architecture of the system offers fundamental wins based on which the solution can outsmart any other existing product. This is the NoSQL database for the Internet generation. A platform that offers the flexibilities in developing applications for Internet scale and offering the cardinalities that does not have to be limited. No manual sharding or load-balancing required, system does it.
Hacker new readers, check it out, drop by the Aerospike office in Mountain View to talk to the amazing developers/hackers. Great technical team open to have more and more be part of Aerospike ecosystem.
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http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/8/18/1-aerospike-server-x-1-amazon-ec2-instance-1-million-tps-for.html
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