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Exclusive: Facebook to Offer Data Storage (rev2.org)
5 points by terpua on Sept 19, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



TFA is credulous and deceptive.

Can something be an 'exclusive' if it's been on a well-trafficked wiki for over a month?

Also, if they'd looked closely, by 'data store' Facebook mean a loose database of objects (consisting of key-value properties) and typed object associations.

That's very very interesting, but not as a bulk data drop competing with S3, which is how it's spun. I mean, you could fragment and base64 your photos into the 64K text blob properties offered by this 'Data Store', but that's clearly not its design goal.


Someone should make a web based RDBMS on top of one of these data drops.




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