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>300k users is tiny for a consumer app. Active users, not the total number of users in the user table. People grossly overestimate the scale of most web proper
by ergo98 17y ago
>300k users is tiny for a consumer app.
Active users, not the total number of users in the user table. People grossly overestimate the scale of most web properties, where the number of active users is far lower than you likely imagine.
>But a bunch of industries have opened up within the last ten years that require several orders of magnitude more data, and it's naive to think that just because it works for a corporate help desk or POS system, it'll work for a system that logs every page view and every action for millions of users.
Strangely it says nothing of the sort. Yet here, again, you've used Google as the example. How many Googles are there? How much does that apply to about 99.999% of people who deal with databases?
Yet it always appears as the example.
- petewarden 17y ago> How many Googles are there? There's tens of thousands of alternative search engines out there, see this for a sample from '07: http://www.altsearchengines.com/2007/10/29/the-top-10-list-of-search-engine-lists/ http://www.altsearchengines.com/2007/10/29/the-top-10-list-o... Most of them fail, but there's a lot of people trying to solve Big Data problems on a shoe string budget. That's part of the disconnect, us NoSQL folks are excited by having cheap solutions to problems we wouldn't be able to afford to tackle otherwise, whilst SQL folks are are shaking their heads at the mess we'll have to clean up if our prototypes do become successful.