Timeline for How to quickly search through a very large list of strings / records on a database
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| May 8, 2015 at 9:41 | comment | added | Pieter B | In my opinion the fulltext options in any RDBMS is a workaround to make it do something it isn't designed for: "search in some pile of unstructured unrelated data". If you're building a searchengine, you just don't use an RDBMS. It may work for small datasets but lakcs any sort of scaling. Searching through piles of unstructured data is not a nail, so don't use a hammer. Use the right tool for the job. | |
| Nov 9, 2011 at 14:24 | history | answered | Wyatt Barnett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |