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Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009) (raphkoster.com)
3 points by yboulkaid 1221 days ago
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iirc from the time I was working at EA online, UO doesn’t have any db. Their servers were just dumping all the data in a text file periodically and load them into the memory on start up.