[wilburlo]

This is really hard to do. The problem is the scalability is that personal project's just don't get to being say.. 500gigabytes big. And they don't have some 1000 programs asking questions, nor do they have junior engineers working the db.

This problem is akin to stress testing a fully functional system.

Personally, when I've had this itch, I work on learning map-reduce in mongodb/riak.