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I believe Facebook had enough talent capable to choose their DBs carefully. And I am pretty sure MySQL replication had a lot to do with it. As having people who
by rimantas 11y ago
I believe Facebook had enough talent capable to choose their DBs carefully. And I am pretty sure MySQL replication had a lot to do with it. As having people who already knew how to finetune MySQL for big loads.
BTW, believe it or not, Wikipedia once run on Postgresql, but was later migrated to MySQL (and currently they use MariaDB).
- forkerenok 11y agoProof-link? or lie. (pg fanboy here)
- e12e 11y agoI'd also like to see a reference to wikipedia running on postgresql. The mediawiki software platform supports running on postgresql[1] -- but it appears the wikipedia has been running on MySQL prior to migrating to MariaDB: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/22/wikipedia-adopts-mariadb/ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/22/wikipedia-adopts-mariad... [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:PostgreSQL https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:PostgreSQL