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Re:MongoDB Finds A Major Adopter In Craigslist by Hawramani on Monday May 16, 2011 @10:13PM (#2555024)
The above comment is correct.

The archive does have to be accessed by users though, since users can access listings from many years back.

The entire archive seems to be under 4 TB from what he described in the video (2 billion documents at 2 kilobytes each). They do not retain photos.

Re:MongoDB Finds A Major Adopter In Craigslist by jzawodn on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @01:00AM (#2555330)
Yup. You hit the nail on the head.
Re:MongoDB Finds A Major Adopter In Craigslist by ratsbane on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @08:18AM (#2556108)
How much photo data do you handle? How long do you keep it?
Re:MongoDB Finds A Major Adopter In Craigslist by jzawodn on Thursday May 19, 2011 @12:41AM (#2562911)
The photos are removed once the posting is no longer live on the site (roughly). As for how many, I'd have to dig a bit to find that out...