On: Follow on: Use DBMS or fs?

[npk]

Suppose the application was gmail? Obviously, one big sqlite DB is not going to cut it. Someone, somewhere on here, mentioned having a sqlite DB for each user. I can't imagine this is what gmail does. It may have worked in the case of viaweb, but I'm not sure.

[mattjaynes → npk]

Here's the discussion I think you were thinking of:

http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=10001

Based on this article:

http://blog.nanobeepers.com/2007/04/07/infinitely-scalable-framework-with-aws/

[randallsquared → npk]

If I were building a gmail, I'd be using a maildir-derivative.