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> Now, if you're running Reddit or Wikipedia or Facebook or HN... Wikipedia uses MariaDB (so, MySQL). https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers#Softwar
by tribaal 9y ago
> Now, if you're running Reddit or Wikipedia or Facebook or HN...
Wikipedia uses MariaDB (so, MySQL). https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers#Software https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers#Software
- sigzero 9y agoMongoDB is the MariaDB of the NoSQL world.
- da_chicken 9y agoWikipedia predates NoSQL. It runs on PHP + MySQL because that's what was most popular back in 2001, and they have no intrest in completely rewriting their entire stack just to use Cassandra or MongoDB. That doesn't mean a NoSQL data store wouldn't work extremely well for the type of application that Wikipedia is.