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Originally Posted by ollien
It seems like it's more of a software problem than a capacity problem. FIRST may be a large organization, but even then, they can only do so much to handle so many simultaneous requests. Even companies as big as Apple go down with big product launches.
That being said, I feel that I need to remind everyone that MongoDB is web scale!  |
I'd be willing to wager their ASP.NET server still uses a MS SQL server on the backend somewhere, and each addition to the API has just been stacked on top of the old one.
Old datasets can be a pain to manage, but MS SQL *does* have a dump feature to export the DB to SQL / CSV that could then be imported into a DB lang of choice.