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Re:I Want a New Data Store (for Craigslist) by aboodman on Thursday April 29, 2010 @01:06AM (#1303620)
Reminds me of this article on how friendfeed implemented schemaless storage on top of MySQL:

http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql

I always thought it was a very clever design.

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Re:I Want a New Data Store (for Craigslist) by jzawodn on Thursday April 29, 2010 @01:56AM (#1303695)
Yup. It's a very interesting mix of using a subset of something very well known (MySQL) to get what you need done.
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