Janet Erbach
jerbach at gmail.com
Mon Jun 21 20:40:54 CDT 2010
Jim - Speaking of writing another facebook...have you seen this? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/nyregion/12about.html?dbk Steven came across it somewhere. Janet Erbach Sent from my iPod On Jun 21, 2010, at 11:36 AM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > The FaceBook site is by far the largest single database in the > world. The > amount of data that this organization moves daily is almost on an > unimaginable scale. > > The interesting point is that all the software they use is open- > source. > There are a number of fabulous packages they use. > > I had set up a site with Erlan a while back but simply ran out of > time (the > curse of the working man) and space to get the product fully > operational and > am now preparing to get a group project together to implement > Cassandra but > not until this fall at the earliest... we are planning a business > around > this implementation. I have already downloaded HipHop for PHP and > done some > testing... I just do not have enough PHP code to really test this > app as > what is faster than instantaneous... > > The following link is fascinating; with a list of software that you > too > could use to create another FaceBook sized application or just build > a super > fast website of your own: > > http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/06/18/the-software-behind-facebook/ > > Check it out... > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com