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rob05c  ·  2741 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski User Data Converted to SQL—Watch for Bugs!

    how the site's data was structured before

Serialised s-expressions.

    particularly when scaling enormously

We're about three orders of magnitude from that problem.

    Happy to discuss "data as a service" and other concepts if that will help

We've considered SQL-as-a-service; at some point, it may be cheaper and faster than using a VM host. But it'll almost certainly be SQL. Our data is relational (like 99% of data), and we'll probably never see the scale where it becomes infeasible. Facebook uses SQL with peaks of 13 million transactions/second. We're currently on the order of 1 transaction/second.