How do you know? :)

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 6:05 PM, C.J. Adams-Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:50:18AM +0900, Seo Sanghyeon wrote:
> > 2008/8/28 John Lam (IRONRUBY) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > Even more to the point - why relational databases at all - especially
> for Web 2.0 style applications? Certainly none of the big boys (Google,
> Amazon, eBay, Yahoo etc.) use relational databases on their user-facing
> high-volume properties.
> >
> > Doesn't eBay use Oracle? Is this page outdated?
> > http://highscalability.com/ebay-architecture
> >
> > IIRC MySpace uses SQL Server. Is that not big enough for you?
>
> Heh, Amazon uses an RDBMS.  There are services that are responsible
> for speaking to the DB, but yes, http://www.amazon.com/ does hit a
> database.  Ask me how I know :)
>
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