"and does it crash and burn and corrupt all its data if a malloc() fails"
MemSQL is fully durable (with option of sync and async durability, similar to sync and async replication) with its transactional log. If MemSQL process is killed it will recover all commited transactions on the next startup. Durability has very little performance cost on throughput as MemSQL uses only sequential I/O. And of course, durability can be completely turned off for maximum performance.
MemSQL is fully durable (with option of sync and async durability, similar to sync and async replication) with its transactional log. If MemSQL process is killed it will recover all commited transactions on the next startup. Durability has very little performance cost on throughput as MemSQL uses only sequential I/O. And of course, durability can be completely turned off for maximum performance.