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Re:A Detailed Five Step Twitter Scaling Plan by nostrademons on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @12:59PM (#196223)
Including systems that don't use databases, or are you defining a database loosely as "anything that stores data"?
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Re:A Detailed Five Step Twitter Scaling Plan by hank777 on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @01:06PM (#196234)
Yes, I am defining database as "anything that stores data" It does not have to be SQL for me to consider it a database problem. And in fact my solution is well above the sql level.
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Re:A Detailed Five Step Twitter Scaling Plan by Excedrin on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @10:58PM (#196827)
Did you mean 100M users per box?
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