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That is actually a very interesting question and it turns out that whether it's better to fanout on write or on read depends on a few different things. There's a very widely read paper on the subject you might enjoy:

http://research.yahoo.net/node/3203



The link doesn't seem to work (error: "Unable to connect to database server"); do you have an alternate link?


Not a link to the full paper, but a summary is presented here: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/1/17/paper-feeding-fren...


Title? Link doesn't work.


Huh, weird. Works fine for me. Anyways:

Feeding Frenzy: Selectively Materializing Users’ Event Feeds Authors: Silberstein, A.; Terrace, J.; Cooper, B.F.; Ramakrishnan, R.

A quick Google should turn it up for you somewhere.




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