From: Claudio Nanni Date: July 11 2011 9:52pm Subject: Re: Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/225355 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=00151748db1005d9c904a7d233f6 --00151748db1005d9c904a7d233f6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Google, Facebook, Twitter if you want and others are pioneers of this era, I think they have also money to invest in research, in fact they hire the very talented people. I think it is part of the game trial&error, and honestly I dont see many alternatives to MySQL, especially when they started. There'll be only one! Cheers Claudio 2011/7/11 Daevid Vincent > > http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/1256241/Facebook-Trapped-In-My > SQL-a-Fate-Worse-Than-Death > > "According to database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a > huge, complex MySQL implementation equivalent to 'a fate worse than death,' > and the only way out is 'bite the bullet and rewrite everything > > .' Not that it's necessarily Facebook's fault, though. Stonebraker says the > social network's predicament is all too common among web startups that > start > small and grow to epic proportions." > -- Claudio --00151748db1005d9c904a7d233f6--