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		gnaritas on Feb 20, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Memcachedb (db) is a distributed key-value storage... No, it's a specialized persistence system. Not everyone wants or needs the truckload of other stuff that bogs down a traditional relational database.

st3fan on Feb 20, 2008 [–]

I totally agree. Simple key/value stores are extremely valuable. Their simplicity also requires you to simplify your problems. In many cases you find out that you really don't need that 5 line sql query to join 8 tables.

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