What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies

Re:What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of T... by dclowd9901 on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @11:59AM (#4224427)

Color me surprised: No NoSQL? Instagram seems to be a prime candidate for such a storage method.

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Re:What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of T... by gregburd on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @01:09PM (#4224876)

You don't consider Amazon/S3 or Redis NoSQL databases?

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Re:What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of T... by pjscott on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @03:49PM (#4225770)

It's weird that things as different as S3 and Redis all fall under the umbrella of "NoSQL". We should probably replace the SQL-NoSQL dichotomy with terms that more accurately reflect the real differences.

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Re:What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of T... by jammmuel on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @03:33PM (#4225671)

Since when is S3 a 'database'?

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Re:What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of T... by philjohn on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @12:05PM (#4229811)

It's got an API, you can store data in it and retreive it later by key, since when was S3 not a database? It's a key/value store that lets you store very large values.

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Re:What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of T... by dclowd9901 on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @06:29PM (#4226595)

Not really a "distinctive" one (a la mongo, couch, etc.), but I see your point.

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Re:What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of T... by brendoncrawford on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @01:16PM (#4224933)

They use Redis.

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Re:What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of T... by timaelliott on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @07:20PM (#4226798)

Redis is a key-value store. S3 is a distributed file system.

Can we stop labeling the set of "not a rdbms" data storage mechanisms with the stupid fucking "NoSQL" moniker.

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Re:What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of T... by skeletonjelly on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @10:33PM (#4227437)

To be fair I've hardly seen an article on the benefits of NoSQL on the frontpage for a while.

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Re:What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of T... by gaius on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @11:33AM (#4229670)

First it was No SQL. Then it was Not Only SQL. Then it was, we have to get some real work done, Need Our SQL.

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