Once Greg Linden had pinged me about BigTable (leading to yesterday's entry), it occurred to me to ask Greg for his own war stories, both at Findory and Amazon. We hear a recurrent theme: the use of flat files and custom file systems. Despite the furor that ensued in the comments when Mark Fletcher and Gabe Rivera noted that they didn't use traditional SQL databases, Web 2.0 applications really do
In Monday's installment, Cory Ondrejka of Second Life said "flat files don't cut it", but Mark Fletcher of bloglines and Gabe Rivera of memeorandum.com apparently don't agree. Gabe wrote: "I didn't bother with databases because I didn't need the added complexity... I maintain the full text and metadata for thousands of articles and blog posts in core. Tech.memeorandum occupies about 600M of core.
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