Selecting a server - a single quad socket, or two dual socket

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Today we can buy very performant servers at very reasonable price points.

e.g. – the price of two dual socket servers with 512 GB memory is
comparable to a single quad socket server with 1024 GB (1 TB) memory.
(Assuming same number of cores and MHz on each CPU)

My gut feeling is that a single quad server will give better performance
since balancing shards and indexes across servers is simpler – especially
if a query targets certain shards.

Thanks for your opinion.

Tzahi

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It may make sense to do this, you probably also want to look into running
multiple instances on the host to maximise capacity.

On 21 April 2015 at 19:08, Tzahi jakubovitz tzahij@hotmail.com wrote:

Today we can buy very performant servers at very reasonable price points.

e.g. – the price of two dual socket servers with 512 GB memory is
comparable to a single quad socket server with 1024 GB (1 TB) memory.
(Assuming same number of cores and MHz on each CPU)

My gut feeling is that a single quad server will give better performance
since balancing shards and indexes across servers is simpler – especially
if a query targets certain shards.

Thanks for your opinion.

Tzahi

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