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Will Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Stay With MySQL?

Posted by timothy on from the so-long-as-it's-internet-scale dept.

littlekorea writes "The world's largest web-scale users of MySQL have committed to one further upgrade to the Oracle-controlled database — but Facebook and Twitter are also eyeing off more open options from MariaDB and cheaper options from the NoSQL community. Who will pay for MySQL enterprise licenses into the future?"

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  1. Re: and so meanwhile... by buchner.johannes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe Postgres lacks discoverability?

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  2. Re:How do you get cheaper than free? by sgbett · · Score: 3, Funny

    "One does not simply export Facebook!"

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  3. Reverential integrity? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    One entire Billy Graham at a time?

  4. what about slashdot? by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Funny

    are you guys still using MySQL?

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  5. Re: and so meanwhile... by SQLGuru · · Score: 5, Funny

    BetaMax vs VHS. Blu-ray vs HD-DVD.

    Obviously it's because the porn industry chose MySQL.

  6. They should switch to Mongo DB by citizenr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its web scale!

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  7. Re:and so meanwhile... by greg1104 · · Score: 5, Funny

    PostgreSQL's biggest disadvantage over MariaDB is that it's not a drop-in replacement for MySQL.

    Postgres has a blackhole engine that loses data in unpredictable ways now. But that only emulates parts of MyISAM.

  8. I switched to MariaDB by EmperorOfCanada · · Score: 3, Funny

    I switched to MariaDB but my database is the size of a microbe so the few quirks were of no difficulty; but there were quirks. MariaDB was not a plug in replacement. I love it and wouldn't go back but it did take a tiny bit of work. So if I had one zillion servers with crazy databases I would be taking my time on that one. I suspect that what you will see is new development experiments depending on MariaDB and slowly increasing the pressure until they just make the switch.

    The other question is how many obscure features of MySQL features are they using? (Including custom code)

  9. Re: 'looking at' NoSQL? by jbo5112 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Facebook uses a NoSQL database (HBase) for their messaging system, and some related tech for data analysis (Hadoop). They also have custom photo serving software (haystack) for their photo storage. The main data (status updates, friends, likes, etc.) is in MySQL with memcache in front of it. There is also a cache layer (varnish) in front of the web servers. They said NoSQL isn't ready and point to the smaller messaging system needing more staff.