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Or it implies that digg did a bad job.

You'd have a pretty low opinion of digg engineers to think they'd optimize that poorly. Which the article author does.

It's actually pretty depressing to see content like this from an alleged Database expert. I've never been able to get 1:1 results between "lab" tests and actual deployments, and I've gone to much greater lengths than the author to simulate workloads.

Did we read the same article? The one I read made ample disclaimers about it being nothing even remotely approximating a serious benchmark.

And still uses those same worthless benchmarks to try to prove the point of sqldbs ability to scale.

He wasn't aiming for 1:1, he was trying for a ballpark, and he got 1000:1 improvement on modest hardware. On a fricking laptop.

That's all in the article.

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