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NoSQL databases were still in their infancy when Wikipedia was originally developed.

• tracker1 12y ago
  I understand that... but would have assumed they would have changed over time. Plenty of platforms have migrated backends to handle much larger load (twitter, facebook, etc, etc).
  • gpvos 12y ago
    Wikimedia's resources are over two orders of magnitude smaller than those of the other top-10 web sites. It is only fairly recently that they have more than a handful paid developers. And they have a huge amount of data they would have to convert. In fact, I think they would have been up to it, but there simply were more pressing concerns.