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Does it make sense for a large scale SaaS project to use a single all powerful SQL/RDBMS database?
Scalability seems to be a thing now. I was in a heated argument with one of my developer who insist on using MySQL for a data intensive application we are building. MySql is easy, fits the purpose and ...
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Why OTServs have an item cloning problem if the server crashes? [closed]
OTServs are open source MMORPGs with a huge community. Mostly all of them have a serious problem: if the server crashes, people can clone items. This is a dirty trick that can be executed because the ...
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Why use a database instead of just saving your data to disk?
Instead of a database I just serialize my data to JSON, saving and loading it to disk when necessary. All the data management is made on the program itself, which is faster AND easier than using SQL ...
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