Re: Can MySql handle Large data?
| From: | Fergus Gibson | Date: | Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:45:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Can MySql handle Large data? | ||
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Abah Joseph <joefazee@gmail.com> wrote:
> The question came to my mind is, How did large website like Yahoo handle
> such data? Sure. Yahoo users may be more than 20 millions users or so.
Very large data sets are often partitioned in some way so that a given
lookup doesn't have to be performed against the entire data set.
That's quite an expansive topic in fact.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_(database)