We are planning to start a new project running on MongoDB. Our hardware partner recommends to use SGI (silicon graphics) servers because of the budget. But I have some concerns about it:
1) SGI UV NUMAlink and Shared Memory are compatible with MongoDB? 2) Does mongodb have a known performance issues on SGI? 2) It says Redhat and SuSE certified. Can I also use Debian flawlessly ?
I need help from anybody have an experience MongoDB on SGI. Thanks in advance
There shouldn't be any problem with getting MongoDB to run on a UV.
1) The UV uses Xenon processors, so this shouldn't be a problem, provided the addressed area of memory doesn't change from under the application. That is, when trying to access area A of memory, and the data has been moved to area B by another process, MongoDB will not like that.
2) Yes. You can use Debian without an issue - I have done this many times in production.
The UV is a fairly exotic machine to be running MongoDB on, so my reply is an educated guess having briefly used a UV before for testing.