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Seems like nowadays, everyone's saying SQL database do not scale, while apparently, most crowded sites are using mySQL (or other SQL based) and scaling it quite
by tzury 17y ago
Seems like nowadays, everyone's saying SQL database do not scale, while apparently, most crowded sites are using mySQL (or other SQL based) and scaling it quite well, producing speedy websites that serve billions of pages everyday.
- kscaldef 17y agoServing billions of pages a day is not a particularly hard scaling problem if most of those page views only require reads. It's writes, and particularly transactional updates, that are hard.
- drusenko 17y agoyes, but even harder are the entire set of problems where the data is extremely interrelated, like Facebook's is -- making it very difficult to shard effectively.