Then each went to his own home

Lately it became very silent around del.icio.us. There are some new features but nothing groundbreaking. Either people are used to it and use it as a daily tool and there’s no need for new things or otherwise folks just don’t have faith in the future of del.icio.us.

I am a big fan of delicious. I’ve got 1.5K bookmarks there, I like it’s spirit and how open everything is. This article isn’t meant to criticize, but I think delicious is facing some problems.
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In my previous article named “Tags: database schemas” we analysed different database schemas on how they could meet the needs of tag systems. In this article, the focus is on performance (speed). That is: if you want to build a tagsystem that performs good with about 1 million items (bookmarks for instance), then you may want to have a look at the following result of my performance tests.
In this article I tested tagging of bookmarks, but as you can tag pretty much anything, this goes for tagging systems in general.

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