View Single Post
Old 10-29-2005, 01:10 PM   #5
the_logos
Legend
 
the_logos's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Mill Valley, California
Posts: 2,305
the_logos will become famous soon enough
We use MySQL databases, but definitely not to make the game run faster. They are a lot slower than Rapture's native databases due to the fact that Rapture's dbs are memory resident and are built to sacrifice memory space for the sake of speed. RAM is dirt-cheap, after all, so who cares.

What we use them for, however, is storing data that we need to expose to processes outside the game or data that just doesn't need to be accessed frequently (registration data, player-written books, etc).

--matt
the_logos is offline   Reply With Quote