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Juha on April 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Anatomy Of Search Technology: Blekko’s NoSQL D...

Very good article in deed. I have always been amazed of how the search engines can query so huge data sets so quickly. This brings some light to it.

It would had been nice to see some examples of the query language they use, it if is comparable to other NoSql databases.

wumpus2 on April 25, 2012 [–]

Like many NoSQL databases, we don't really have a query language. Mostly you read a few columns from a particular row. That could contain a combinator, such as at TopN containing 1,000 inlinks to a webpage... something that you would ordinarily fetch using a range query that returned 1,000 rows from a table.

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