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Are there any performance tips or information? This looks really cool

Performance analysis of complex systems is really tricky, and good benchmarks are even trickier. We'll be working through posting numbers, docs, tips, etc. over the next few months. Documenting this well is very hard work, so it'll take a little bit of time.

In the meantime, you can always chat with us and we'll help you work through any issues you might run into.

Can I provide an intelligent sharding algorithm in place of a naive partition by primary key? I always get into trouble encoding things into primary keys eventually.

Not at the moment, unfortunately.

Yeah, I'm curious too as to how it stacks up against MongoDB performance-wise and why I'd want to use one over the other.

I'm sure they'll provide performance examples in due course but we should be conscious how difficult it is to do this in practice.

Sure they can take the shortcut and just produce some single case and claim 'faster than a.n. other db' and that will probably satisfy the 'my db is faster than your db' brigade.

However, based on the effort that appears to have gone into this product to get it to this stage, they probably wouldn't be happy with that.

More power to them!

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