Delivering high availability for Inktomi search engines

  • Authors:
  • Eric A. Brewer

  • Affiliations:
  • Inktomi Corporation, and UC Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • SIGMOD '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Inktomi provides the back-end for several well-known search engines, including Wired's HotBot and Microsoft's MS Start page. The services are supported by a highly available cluster with more than 300 CPUs and several hundred disks.