Re:Scaling to 100M: MySQL Is a Better NoSQL
by justinhj on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @03:55AM
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There is nothing terrible or stupid about avoiding joins/transactions for speed. The technique of using blobs of data in MySQL rows in this article is perfectly valid and widespread at this point. As long as you understand the trade offs.
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Re:Scaling to 100M: MySQL Is a Better NoSQL
by calpaterson on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @06:30AM
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In principle that is fine so long as you know what you're doing. In practice most people denormalising "for speed" aren't knowledgeable about the database implementations they are optimising for and that is very obviously the case here.