> Where the large scale storage clusters shine is when the sheer scale of data won't fit in anything else, i.e. there's no other (sane) choice.
In general, this can be an effective approach, but at least fulltext search is another story.
Storing hundreds of MBs (actually, I think even tens of MBs can be problematic) in text files or a db like MySQL (whose FT engine is terrible) will result in slow fulltext searches.
In general, this can be an effective approach, but at least fulltext search is another story.
Storing hundreds of MBs (actually, I think even tens of MBs can be problematic) in text files or a db like MySQL (whose FT engine is terrible) will result in slow fulltext searches.