From a Tumblr engineering blog post: Tumblr is one of the largest users of MySQL on the web. At present, our data set consists of over 60 billion relational rows, adding up to 21 terabytes of unique relational data. Managing over 200 dedicated database servers can be a bit of a handful, so naturally we [...]
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Tumblr hits 500 million page views a day, deals with 40,000 requests per second and sends more than a terabyte of data into its Hadoop cluster. Here's how it went from nothing to a startup that needed to serve 15 billion page views ... Read Post
Rumors of a Facebook "sentiment engine" analyzing aggregate user data, or a new form of the company's Engagement Ads that offer rapid polling to advertisers, have been flying around the web since the start of this week's World Econo... Read Post
You can now replicate data from MySQL data to MongoDB using Tungsten Replicator, an open source data replication engine for MySQL. It's sponsored by Continuent, makers of Tungsten Enterprise. The new functionality was added by Conti... Read Post