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Re:Node.JS 0.3.4 out (with experimental HTTPS) by mcs on Saturday January 08, 2011 @10:32PM (#2084731)
I've seen people using MongoDB in memory only as a cache, so that they can mapreduce it. Even without that, it's writes to disk are async so it's fast.
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Re:Node.JS 0.3.4 out (with experimental HTTPS) by cdavid on Sunday January 09, 2011 @04:32AM (#2085221)
What's the point of map reduce if data can be held in memory ?
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