Re: Friendster with MySQL

2005-12-06 Thread sheeri kritzer
*shrug* Livejournal uses MySQL just fine: http://www.danga.com/words/2004_mysqlcon/mysql-slides.pdf I dare say livejournal has more writes and is more real-time than friendster. MySQL Cluster isn't a bad solution, just remember that you need machines with LOTS of memory -- 'cause that's where

Re: Friendster with MySQL

2005-12-06 Thread mos
At 11:23 PM 12/5/2005, you wrote: Hi ALL, We are planning to create a social software similar to friendster and Im working on the requirements... I saw a site: http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/6171/2003-fall/friendster and for some reasons its telling me not to use

Re: Friendster with MySQL

2005-12-06 Thread Cal Evans
I'm sorry, I' just gotta interject. 800 hits/second is not that big of a deal. I've got a client running an affiliate tracking system across several high traffic domains. To properly scale this we had to do some testing. Using a Dell 2800 w/2GB of RAM and a single HD (not the greatest

Friendster with MySQL

2005-12-05 Thread JM
Hi ALL, We are planning to create a social software similar to friendster and Im working on the requirements... I saw a site: http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/6171/2003-fall/friendster and for some reasons its telling me not to use MySQL, the initial infrastructure is a