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> Uber switching to MySQL over Postgre is rather scary, I wouldn't want to be a Uber investor right now. I guess you wouldn't have wanted to be a GOOG investor

by jsight 10y ago

> Uber switching to MySQL over Postgre is rather scary, I wouldn't want to be a Uber investor right now. I guess you wouldn't have wanted to be a GOOG investor either? Most of their early revenue was from AdWords on MySQL.

DiabloD3 10y ago
I actually know engineers who work for Google for that. Google maintains their own MySQL fork internally and also know exactly how MySQL fucks up and has planned for MySQL failure in depth. Google is maybe the only company I trust to know what they're doing when it comes to databases.
- jayflux 10y ago
  What about facebook? As I'm sure I've read they've forked MySQL too