If WebMD Answers was a TrueVault customer, their monthly charge would only be $1,604. Here's the breakdown: WebMD Answers has 5,036,000 questions, so that's 5,036,000 JSON documents stored . According to Alexa, they have 1,042,705 page views a month, so that's 1,042,705 requests. And presto, $504 + $1,100 = $1,604/mo."
To save money WebMD should store their json documents as compressed binary objects and get way more than 10k documents per $1.
Though the developers at WebMD team may not be very happy if every piece of data is stored in a compressed BLOB. For each record lookup, you'll have to retrieve the entire compressed binary object, decompress it, find the record you need from some kind of a data structure. And if you are updating a record, you'll have to do all that, plus send the compressed binary object back. Performance might be an issue :)
All kidding aside, our system is optimized for fast lookup of secure data. For a site as popular as WebMD, our JSON Store really is the way to go.
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If WebMD Answers was a TrueVault customer, their monthly charge would only be $1,604. Here's the breakdown: WebMD Answers has 5,036,000 questions, so that's 5,036,000 JSON documents stored . According to Alexa, they have 1,042,705 page views a month, so that's 1,042,705 requests. And presto, $504 + $1,100 = $1,604/mo."
To save money WebMD should store their json documents as compressed binary objects and get way more than 10k documents per $1.
That's absolutely okay with us.
Though the developers at WebMD team may not be very happy if every piece of data is stored in a compressed BLOB. For each record lookup, you'll have to retrieve the entire compressed binary object, decompress it, find the record you need from some kind of a data structure. And if you are updating a record, you'll have to do all that, plus send the compressed binary object back. Performance might be an issue :)
All kidding aside, our system is optimized for fast lookup of secure data. For a site as popular as WebMD, our JSON Store really is the way to go.