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Q: What database technologies do big search engines use?

rkosegiDoes anybody knows how Google or Yahoo perform searches for keywords against very very huge amounts of data? What sort of database or technologies do they employ for this? It takes few milliseconds, but they have more than a billion pages indexed.

do I need to just blow away all the question comments?
 
 
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2:36 PM
@AaronBertrand Well, those of us who have met you don't think you're a douche.
 
 
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3:52 PM
@ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells excellent! That's one step toward non-douche status. :-)
 
4:13 PM
@AaronBertrand Linus Torvalds quote of the day:
 
Nice
Does MySQL have any concept of data compression?
 
@AaronBertrand Don't know.
 
I talked about SQL Server's compression in this answer but I have no idea if there is any equivalent:
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Q: Will using bigint vs mediumint have a performance impact?

user1162541I'm considering using mediumint or bigint for an ID column. I prefer to use bigint, because that way I'm very sure that the huge numbers that the client sometimes uses are stored just fine. However, I can also technically split up the numbers, and that way use a mediumint. I do not care about sto...

 
5:06 PM
I don't even know how to capture this for my "how to ask better questions" blog post
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Q: find start and end dates over a non-contiguous range

spizotflI need to find the start and end dates of range defined as: start date is the first date and the end date is the first date where the subsequent date is two months or more after the end date. There can be multiple possible ranges I have a table structure like: ID int identity(1,1), fk_I...

The guy has changed his requirements three times, two people have submitted multiple versions of a query (none of which has been "just right"), and now his question is fragmented into two different sets of sample data and two seemingly conflicting sets of desired results.
 
5:29 PM
@AaronBertrand Perhaps your motto should be: 'Don't make him angry or he'll turn into Joe Celko' ;-}
 
5:39 PM
You lot are way too active for a Sunday morning
 
@jcolebrand It's dinner time here.
 
7:13 PM
:)
@gbn You've got mail.
 

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