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I wish I was running a site big enough for these scaling issues with MySql to be a problem. I'm sure an SSD drive or a battery backed RAM drive would sustain so

by dejb 17y ago

I wish I was running a site big enough for these scaling issues with MySql to be a problem. I'm sure an SSD drive or a battery backed RAM drive would sustain some pretty serious growth for all but the really mega sites like digg. This makes me wonder if these super scalable systems will ever be made into products suitable for small and medium sites without a team of uber geeks to support it.

megaman821 17y ago
I wonder how many sites there are that couldn't be served by MySQL or Postgres with SSDs in a RAID array and 64 gigs of RAM. Of course it is easier to spin up 10 EC2 instances with Cassandra on them, but for the vast majority of sites I don't think relation databases have reached their limits yet.