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Proof of how fast FB, Twitter, Tumblr and all sorts of companies is already out there. Some people have a negative reaction (dissent and disbelief) to FB using

Proof of how fast FB, Twitter, Tumblr and all sorts of companies is already out there. Some people have a negative reaction (dissent and disbelief) to FB using PHP and that they should have rewrote it in the different language, which is more than absurd. "PHP is an anti pattern" or whatever. I have seen zero examples so far of the fears and dissent raised by several people. Threats of horror stories, bottlenecks or "just because you can do it doesn't mean you should" are all kinds of dismissive, anti-social and social anti-patterns unconducive to learning. I think we can leave it at that. No point in this endless replyfest. Some people will stay with their beliefs and never be open to what is done in practice and works in hopes to just being "right".

AmericanChopper 7y ago
I replied directly to you sighting the specific reasons this is non-performant in an RDBMS, and you simply ignored it. There is also nothing to disbelieve about the system described in the parent comment. It a perfectly sound design pattern. It’s just not an RDBMS. It is a system that uses an RDBMS as an object store, and then uses external systems for enforcing ref and check constraints, schema definition, querying, mutation and consistency. If you’re just using collection of RDBMS to store objects, and performing all other operations in external systems, then RDBMS design constraints are mostly irrelevant.