Bookmooch’s Search Engine

[Illustration credit Andrice Arp, courtesy of BookMooch.com]
Regarding my previous post about Twitter’s database architecture and scaling, here’s a post about bookmooch.com’s scaling troubles (bookmooch is a book swapping site).
Bookmooch had a search engine for books, using a single table that indexed each word in a book’s title/author/etc. This system was very efficient for searching (one [...]

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