I was wondering the various ways of storing and retrieving data in a cloud?
How does facebook do it? apple (ie mobileme)? google app engine, etc?
Thanks!
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Well, the first thing you'll notice is that data is typically stored in key-value pairs rather than relationally. This is done for speed and to enable the cloud OS to better distribute data over multiple nodes.
rein
2009-06-05 21:13:54
I came across a google video with a talk by one of the top salesforce.com guys, and they seemed to be have not a lot of tables in their schema, and one of their tables seemed "skinny"/EAV like, as you described above
dplante
2009-06-05 21:49:28
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Slide 8 in this presentation is "Facebook's Data Infrastructure":
It's interesting to see how it has evolved.
hmason
2009-06-08 13:05:27