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"Our new architecture will move our reliance to a simple, elegant filesystem-based approach, rather than a collection of database." Finally! Using a database f

by nickb 18y ago

"Our new architecture will move our reliance to a simple, elegant filesystem-based approach, rather than a collection of database." Finally! Using a database for Twitter was a huge mistake. Anyone who's developing an IM should not use a database as a general message storage. And especially not for a system that's multicasting at such a high rate.

axod 18y ago
No one in their right mind ever would. Does IRC use a database for messages? Yahoo/msn/aol/icq? no.
- ajkirwin 18y ago
  Yes, but to counterpoint that.. they don't store anything, anyway. They're simply protocols, a network and a login system.
  - axod 18y ago
    most of them support offline messages as well.
    - ajkirwin 18y ago
      Yes, but that's more a temporary thing.
      - axod 18y ago
        Well if you also need permanent storage - logs for example - a DB is clearly not the right thing to use.
        ajkirwin 18y ago
        Logging, in such a case, is usually done locally, not remotely. You're still not making much sense here, axod.