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by nickmonad 137 days ago
You turn it on, and it scales right up.
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Who cares what we store so long as we do it quickly?
I hear there's a great tool for this, DB null or something like that.
MySQL actually has a BLACKHOLE storage engine designed specifically for universe-scale data storage for those who don't care about persistence.
It does have its use cases :)