November 2009
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Scaling on up [part 1]
For a recent ongoing project, I realized that I had to begin offloading a sub-system from mySQL to a key/value store for efficient retrieval. We all know that mySQL heavily depends on power to read as opposed to write. Therefore, when dealing with joins, and sometimes IN’s on non trivial queries, it can become fairly expensive. Not to mention my budget is finite, so I can’t (and...