Traditional databases get very unpleasant at a bit larger volumes than this especially with higher update volumes.
Hbase is reportedly making great strides: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/7493304/HBase-Goes-Realtime I agree with you that it wasn't usable except for special situations until recently. Good luck! Here is wishing you some exceedingly painful scaling problems. On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Marcus Herou <[email protected]>wrote: > We now have 90 million blog entries in the DB (in 4 months) and have > prospected over a billion urls so we are doing something right I hope. >
