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Is it? Because there are a ton of companies out there running postgres, mysql and scaling workloads just fine.
by bpicolo 9y ago
Is it? Because there are a ton of companies out there running postgres, mysql and scaling workloads just fine.
- jsjohnst 9y agoI upvoted you because you’re technically right for many cases, but if you’d ever dealt with a database you couldn’t scale further (we were using multiple of the largest instances EC2 had at the time) and new data was flowing in faster than you could delete it and downtime wasn’t an option, you too would hate any predecessors who said “you can always scale higher” before things got so bad it was almost impossible to recover.
- bpicolo 9y agoYeah. There are definitely cases where the scaling options make sense along different axis for sure. My point is mostly that relational DBs tend to strike a good default ground if you aren't sure what axis you'll care about.