How to turbocharge your Web site by dumping your database

April 21, 2008 (Computerworld) Databases are getting faster every day. But they're still a significant bottleneck for many Web applications or Web sites.

Why? Mechanical hard drives, impeded by the laws of physics, bog down the relational databases that read and write to them.

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