Came across an interesting post by Bret (co-founder of FriendFeed) about how
FriendFeed uses MySQL to store "schema-less"
data. According to the post, they weren't having issues with
scaling existing features but rather they were experiencing pain
when trying to add features.
Now the way they are using MySQL is interesting and bizarre at the same time.
At a very high level, it seems their approach is to use a RDBMS
as if it is a column-oriented database. Of course, it makes me
wonder why not just use a column-oriented database? I need to
read the post again in the morning (too tired right now so just
gave it a quick glance).
I am very interested in hearing thoughts from my peers at Planet
MySQL regarding this approach. They seem to …
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01
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