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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 Narcocide · · Score: -1, Troll

    The primary arguments against it traditionally (though these may be out-of-date now, and there have historically been some very popular 3rd party patches to add these features) for business customers have been that it doesn't do users/permissions or network connections. So, basically its like MySQL with more Oracle-esque PL/SQL language extensions, but no GRANT tables and no clustering features. So, really its more like a stand-alone flat-file database handler like Berekly DB or SQLite that just happens to have some high-end query syntax.

    Saying "yea but its faster than MySQL if you train harder, and all the missing features can be added in a comletely unsupported fashion with no network of trust" never sells to business executives. They would rather buy faster servers than let you spend business hours getting smarter.

  2. License by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    MySQL have an real open source license, the GPL.

    Postgres does not have any real open source license. Their license is not OSI-approved nor FSF-approved.

    They have some custom vanity license of their own.

  3. No Cross Database Joins by KalvinB · · Score: -1, Troll

    PostgreSQL is a toy. It also can get sequences out of sync with data in the database. That's just asinine.

    PostgreSQL is blacklisted now for my development. If it can't do basic things that a programming language can't make up for efficiently then it's just garbage. I haven't run into anything that MySQL can't do that are mission critical that they be done in MySQL.

    Start with MySQL. If you outgrow it, use a real commercial product that has been vetted in real production environments. By the time your business outgrows MySQL you should be making enough money that an MS SQL Server won't break the bank.

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