del.icio.us architecture

Discussion:

Brett O'Connor

2008-07-10 18:01:18 UTC

To help answer one of your questions, I'm pretty sure I heard
somewhere that del.icio.us uses Oracle Database. I don't know for
sure though. I thought it was in the mailing list archives but I
can't find it. Might have been the pre-yahoo groups mailing list....

Brett

Hi, I am interested in the del.icio.us database architecture (what
database? database scheme (de)normalized? partitioning? #records?
#read/write queries per hour? ...
I understand if del.icio.us does not want to make any of this public,
but I'm interested and it doesn't hurt to ask.
Regards,
Karel

karel_vervaeke

2008-07-10 09:47:47 UTC

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Hi, I am interested in the del.icio.us database architecture (what
database? database scheme (de)normalized? partitioning? #records?
#read/write queries per hour? ...

I understand if del.icio.us does not want to make any of this public,
but I'm interested and it doesn't hurt to ask.

Regards,
Karel

Toby Elliott

2008-07-10 19:08:03 UTC

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Obviously we can't make much of this public. However, I can say that
we're mostly JDBC running on top of Access.

Just kidding. Delicious is currently a conglomeration of MySQL,
various internal Yahoo technologies, and a dash of Xapian.

Regards,
Toby Elliott
del.icio.us

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Vinay Augustine

2008-07-10 19:04:34 UTC

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