Re: Excellent article on Apache/mod_perl at eToys

[Ask Bjoern Hansen]

On 22 Oct 2001, Matthew Kennedy wrote:

> Why was Berkeley DB chosen for caching when a RDBMS (mysql in
> this case) was already being used?

For speed.

You want to hit the RDBMS as little as possibly; Berkeley DB makes a
good cache.
 

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