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		daigoba66 on Sept 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reddit's database has only two tables This is also true for MS SQL. However online index operations do require the expensive licenses, unfortunately. Postgres is amazing.

eckyptang on Sept 3, 2012 [–]

Ack. SQL 2008 Enterprise hurt badly, especially as we have a couple of machines with 8 physical CPUs.

+1 for PostgreSQL.

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