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Redis can store binary data -- and YouPorn's Redis cluster apparently handles 300K queries per second. Those queries obviously aren't all page views (the site only peaks at 4000 PVs per second).

Why can't you store video in a database? YouPorn says that Redis is its primary data store.





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