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Re:Using MySQL as a NoSQL - A story for exceeding 750,000 qp... by steveklabnik on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @08:01AM (#1886265)
I don't know if they're using a particular feature, but Reddit is basically using Postgres as a KVS.

They said it was actually faster than other KVSes they tried. This was also a while ago.

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Re:Using MySQL as a NoSQL - A story for exceeding 750,000 qp... by edanm on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @08:08AM (#1886276)
I actually just looked up the video where they talk about this yesterday.

Here it is: http://thinkvitamin.com/code/steve-huffman-on-lessons-learne...

It's called "Lessons Learned at Reddit", and mostly talks about building and deploying large-scale web applications (the technical, not business side of things.) Well worth watching (there's also a transcript.)

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