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Facebook, Twitter, Google and LinkedIn all use MySQL. A lot of it. Yes, they use other datastores, but claiming they run their entire core business on NoSQL is
by cwyers 10y ago
Facebook, Twitter, Google and LinkedIn all use MySQL. A lot of it. Yes, they use other datastores, but claiming they run their entire core business on NoSQL is patently wrong.
- jokoon 10y ago> but claiming they run their entire core business on NoSQL is patently wrong. Those companies are very large and thus they use many different technologies. > Yes, they use other datastores I guess that's what he meant by nosql. Overall he is saying nosql are for very specific, very large scale needs.
- cwyers 10y agoThe key word there is entire. They do not use exclusively NoSQL storage technologies. They use a mix of NoSQL and SQL. There are tradeoffs to each, and if you have as many really, really great engineers as such places employ, it can make sense to deploy whatever database technology best suits each narrow storage problem in order to meet absurdly high levels of usage. For 95% of us, who have neither the resources or the needs of a business that large, using a relational database for everything is probably the right choice.