Tencent builds one NoSQL database to rule all data models

Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed it created a NoSQL database that it believes can handle multiple data models more elegantly than other attempts to do so, and has used it to consolidate its database fleet and improve resource utilization. The existence of the database – named X-Stor – was recently revealed in a paper [ …

[Anonymous Coward]

So it's like MySQL storage engines?

This sounds like MySQL storage engines for Team SQL. It makes sense to apply the same concept to Team NoSQL.

[Pascal Monett]

30 million requests per second

Now that is an impressive performance.

Now all we need to do is wait for China to take over the world and we will have this technology at our fingertips . . .

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: 30 million requests per second

Well that won't take long, looking at the level our (Western) leaders are on in the geopolitics game nowadays.

[CowHorseFrog]

Re: 30 million requests per second

You obvously have no idea how crap china is...

go watch their tofu buildings, cars and more...

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: 30 million requests per second

my own in memory DB can do ~100m requests per second but then that's not over http/s

[Craig 2]

Standards..

Obligatory XKCD

[druck]

Re: Standards..

Please only wheel that out when it is an actual standard we are talking about. This is just a new proprietary database.

[KirillB]

Similar YDB is years in production

YDB is similar database, years in production. Storage separated from compute. Request Units billing and processing approach. 12PB of data managed by one cloud provider. Open source. Less supported data formats, but actively developing.