Twitter is just one more of the many tech companies who are turning to custom data management solutions due to the high volume of user-generated data. As an alternative to the fairly common practice of ‘sharding’ a database (splitting it up over several computers), Twitter came up with a solution they call Gizzard, which they’ve made available for other developers.
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After reading about distributed database solutions and watching the entire NOSQL movement I had to figure out a way to start building something on a distributed database system. While I only needed one server to get started on (i.e. I didn’t need multiple database nodes right away), I already have a couple projects that are breaking from the old MySQL replication plus Memcached problems (effectively articulated here). In other words, it’s becoming a pain in the butt to maintain the system so I decided to dive in. Here’s how I first got setup.
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