Can mysql handle a dataset of 50gb (only text) efficiently ? If not, what database technologies should I use ?
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Can mysql handle a dataset of 50gb (only text) efficiently ? If not, what database technologies should I use ?
thanks
Technically, I would say yes. MySQL can handle 50GB of data, efficiently.
If you are looking for a few examples, Facebook moved to Cassandra only after it was storing over 7 Terabytes of inbox data.
Wikipedia also handles hundreds of Gigabytes of text data in MySQL.