Mahalo and EC2 Dan Zinngrabe and Chris Miller, Mahalo.com

Dan Zinngrabe and Chris Miller, Mahalo.com

Mahalo.com Mahalo is a new human powered search engine. We have a number of human content creators (guides) collecting and curating the best of the web into organized, comprehensive search results. We pride ourselves on only having great links.

Mahalo is a new human powered search engine. We have a number of human content creators (guides) collecting and curating the best of the web into organized, comprehensive search results. We pride ourselves on only having great links.

Mahalo.com Replaced a traditional row-based relational database with a very non traditional column oriented store How is Mahalo using EC2?

Replaced a traditional row-based relational database with a very non traditional column oriented store

Mahalo.com Relational databases don’t scale well. Bigger hardware, or extreme federation. Why?

Relational databases don’t scale well.

Bigger hardware, or extreme federation.

Mahalo.com Column-oriented distributed storage is like sea monkeys. The solution

Column-oriented distributed storage is like sea monkeys.

Mahalo.com Cheap to scale, just add nodes! The solution

Cheap to scale, just add nodes!

Mahalo.com In a traditional data center, this would still be expensive, though not as expensive as a RDBMs. Using EC2, this is very, very cheap - $140/mo Why EC2?

In a traditional data center, this would still be expensive, though not as expensive as a RDBMs.

Using EC2, this is very, very cheap - $140/mo

Mahalo.com 1 Custom AMI + 1 new PHP class + HBase backup application = 30 engineering hours Wait a second, how hard was this?

Mahalo.com Questions?

Mahalo.com So about that latency... Not a problem.