Comment by a2ff6eeb0

3 hours ago

If that's your design constraint, couldn't you speed it up by getting rid of the WAL?

You'd lose durability against process crashes.

If your system has a reasonable tolerance for power failure (multi-az multi-cloud), this can provide much better throughput

  • Indeed, a common enough pattern for etcd is to run it backed by a RAMdisk and have multi-az availability + periodic backups + tolerance at a business level to be OK losing some recent data.