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It is a little naive considering how many HN reader probably have experience with complex software systems. If someone suggested running oracle on a grid of ma
by 7952 11y ago
It is a little naive considering how many HN reader probably have experience with complex software systems. If someone suggested running oracle on a grid of mainframes using some esoteric programming language we would be naturally sceptical but nuclear power always gets a free ride. Big and complicated is expensive even when it is the best solution on paper.
- curryst 11y agoThat's not an adequate comparison. You're comparing one simple solution to one complex solution. The actual comparison is one complex solution to several thousand simple solutions. What you're comparing is running oracle on a grid of mainframes using some esoteric programming language compared to running about 2,500 MariaDB servers (based on comparisons of modern wind turbines to modern nuclear generators). Oh, and that's just for one site. So you can manage a couple hundred unwieldy Oracle servers, or a quarter million MariaDB servers.
- 7952 11y agoIt is mitigating 1 million failure modes in one site or a few simple failure modes in 1 million sites. It wouldn't surprise me if wind turbines run SQLite!