Comment by Jan Vladimir Mostert on "What algorithms companies like Twitter employ in order to search billions of new items and still get results in seconds?"

Denny Trebbin

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The answer to the original question can be found here

It's not SQL exclusively. They use SQL only for commercial relevant data like Ads, etc.

They use multiple different storages.

Jan Vladimir Mostert

Idea Incubator

I knew they were using Apache Mesos, didn't know about the Mysos plugin for Mesos. mesosphere.com/blog/2015/04/17/mysql-on-mesos-tod…

Daniel Greene

Maker of things

@fibric good links. Why not add as a separate answer so that everyone who is following get notifications?

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