Also: how does one edit a post on this forum? (I accidently his ctrl-enter which is apparently “post”)
Am I understanding right that in order to tolerate a failure of a node, that node needs to be part of a three node replica set otherwise it won’t failover properly?
If that is the case, then to build a six-shard database across replica sets it would require 18 servers? All to get performance that is (so far) sub-par to a single SQL Server with 128 gigs of RAM.