Can mysql handle a dataset of 50gb?
database, mysql
Solution
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.
- Source: Lakshman, Malik: Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System.
Wikipedia also handles hundreds of Gigabytes of text data in MySQL.
Problem
Can mysql handle a dataset of 50gb (only text) efficiently ? If not, what database technologies should I use ? thanks