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jaymc

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How the hell do myspace deal with the rediculous amount of members they have

 

When they have 176 million+ members, standard normalisation goes out the window...

 

I mean, they cant have a table called members with 176 million lines of members in there! What methods are available when faced with a problem like that. I dont mean what do myspace do, I mean, whats the norm!

 

Things that spring to my mind is having a members database with a table for each letter in the alphabet.

 

So rather than 176 mllion rows of members, in theory, its now 176 / 26. As well as that they could have each of those tables on a different server, to cluster it with an N-Tier approach

 

Any good articles that go beyond standard normalisation and DB/table design or ideas you have or methods you know

 

Really interested to lean about this stuff

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