Probably a couple years ago? I will admit it was relativly new in MySQL when I ported everything I was doing to DB2 and dumped MySQL as a platform. I couldn't afford the risk at the time, and the performance was a nice benefit.
I totally admit that Livejournal is an amazing application of MySQL, but without massive clustering and memcached, it would fall on its face, no? My experience is that single instances of MySQL can't scale vertically at all, which means you need other layers of stuff on top of it to make it perform well. (Don't get me wrong, BTW, I think memcached is completely badass)
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Date: 2005-02-08 10:31 pm (UTC)I totally admit that Livejournal is an amazing application of MySQL, but without massive clustering and memcached, it would fall on its face, no? My experience is that single instances of MySQL can't scale vertically at all, which means you need other layers of stuff on top of it to make it perform well. (Don't get me wrong, BTW, I think memcached is completely badass)