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Why does Django still not have support for multiple joins?

I don’t fully understand the question, but if you’re talking about doing a single join across multiple tables the Django ORM handles that just fine. Let’s say you want to get every BlogEntry written by a User who belongs to the Group with the name “admins”:

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4:10 pm / 9th May 2011 / databases, django, scaling, webdevelopment, quora

What is the largest production deployment of Redis?

I’d guess Twitter or Craigslist.

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9:21 am / 21st December 2010 / databases, redis, scaling, quora

What is the largest production deployment of CouchDB for online use?

The BBC have a pretty big CouchDB cluster, which they use mostly as a replicated key-value store. It’s used by their new identity platform which includes customisation features for iPlayer.

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9:23 am / 25th August 2010 / couchdb, databases, nosql, scaling, quora

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