Awesome article!
I'm wondering how many databases (or even database types!) can be involved in a single social media feature...
Depends on your needs and the volume necessary
You can look at the likes of stack overflow as a website that scaled massively just with Microsoft SQL Server.
You could also use Redis with persistence if you don't mind a secondary data source or have different scaling needs.
Every 10x of users past the first 10k or so will mean differing approaches. At 1m or so you start needing something more like ScyllaDB.
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Awesome article!
I'm wondering how many databases (or even database types!) can be involved in a single social media feature...
Depends on your needs and the volume necessary
You can look at the likes of stack overflow as a website that scaled massively just with Microsoft SQL Server.
You could also use Redis with persistence if you don't mind a secondary data source or have different scaling needs.
Every 10x of users past the first 10k or so will mean differing approaches. At 1m or so you start needing something more like ScyllaDB.