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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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    NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
  2. Reverential integrity? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    One entire Billy Graham at a time?

  3. 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.

  4. 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.