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zacharyvoase on May 30, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: F1 - The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporti...

My favourite quote is from the summary page: “In short, we made our database scale, and didn't lose any key database features along the way.”

stingraycharles on May 30, 2012 [–]

Except that it "Can't do cross-shard transactions or joins". It either must have some really intelligent way to distribute the shards, or you would be losing some key database features along the way.

ddlatham on May 30, 2012 | [–]

That quote is from the slide "Our Legacy DB: Sharded MySQL", not describing F1.

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