Comment on Using MySQL as a NoSQL - A story for exceeding 750,000 qps on a commodity serverparentComments−steveklabnik15yI don't know if they're using a particular feature, but Reddit is basically using Postgres as a KVS.They said it was actually faster than other KVSes they tried. This was also a while ago.−edanm15yI actually just looked up the video where they talk about this yesterday.Here it is: http://thinkvitamin.com/code/steve-huffman-on-lessons-learne...It's called "Lessons Learned at Reddit", and mostly talks about building and deploying large-scale web applications (the technical, not business side of things.) Well worth watching (there's also a transcript.)
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I don't know if they're using a particular feature, but Reddit is basically using Postgres as a KVS.
They said it was actually faster than other KVSes they tried. This was also a while ago.
I actually just looked up the video where they talk about this yesterday.
Here it is: http://thinkvitamin.com/code/steve-huffman-on-lessons-learne...
It's called "Lessons Learned at Reddit", and mostly talks about building and deploying large-scale web applications (the technical, not business side of things.) Well worth watching (there's also a transcript.)